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" It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience. "

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" But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They're all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives. "

" Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather: all pervasive and virtually inescapable. "

" I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. "

" Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. "

" I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition. "

" I'm a Democrat because I want every American to have a fair shot at the American Dream. That's what ties it all together for me, and in my experience, that means recognizing that no one is dealing with life one 'issue' at a time. "

" I really enjoyed my time in state government. I thought we made a difference. I liked being a part of that effort. I had a different experience in Washington. "

Alberto Gonzales

" A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies. "

" What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. "

" To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget. "

" My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day. "

" I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?' "

" Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. "

" 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. "

" Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. "

" Each of us brings to our job, whatever it is, our lifetime of experience and our values. "

Sandra Day O'Connor

" I didn't have a traditional college experience. I didn't have a social aspect to it. I was always involved in working and going to school. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. "

Calvin Coolidge

" I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to replacing their fathers. "

" Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. "

" I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you. "

Vijay Sethupathi

" Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. "

" It is a heartening experience to know that you are loved and being missed. "

" The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect. "

Charles Kennedy

" The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow. "

" I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience. "

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

" I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to my continued education, but I never want it to take over my acting. "

" I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it. "

" I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on. "

" The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse. "