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" It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. "

Abraham Lincoln

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" It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe. "

Abraham Lincoln

" All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience. "

" When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. "

" Skydiving is special because it's almost the closest to an out-of-body experience you can have. We live in such a stimulated, connected, busy world - to be up in the air with nothing but yourself and the landscape is incredibly peaceful. "

" Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. "

" Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon. "

" Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career. "

" Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy. "

Thich Nhat Hanh

" Travel is a new experience that can transport you out of your everyday routine to create memories with the ones you love. "

" Just going to Bangladesh was an experience... if you go into small villages in the U.K., they're backward and culturally devoid. But if you go into small villages in Bangladesh, they have classical music concerts. "

" Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain and give you any positive feelings you desire. Most people to whom I offer this imaginary choice refuse the machine. It is not just positive feelings we want: we want to be entitled to our positive feelings. "

Martin Seligman

" There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. "

" Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique. "

" Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. "

" Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again. "

" Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service. "

" Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. "

George Santayana

" I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. "

Abraham Lincoln

" My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. "

Abraham Lincoln

" Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it. "

Abraham Lincoln

" With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. "

Abraham Lincoln

" As a parent, you experience the most of everything. The most love, the most fear, the most hurt and the most tired, the most of every emotion. "

" All adventure is now reactionary. "

William F. Buckley, Jr.

" I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. "

Joaquin Phoenix

" I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong. "

" Games have grown and developed from this limited in-the-box experience to something that's everywhere now. Interactive content is all around us, networked, ready. This is something I've been hoping for throughout my career. "

Shigeru Miyamoto

" Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. "

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