"We had the experience, but we missed the meaning."
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"Experience teaches only the teachable."
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"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."
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"It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies."
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"Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy."
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"Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you."
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"The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations."
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"Without passions you have no experience whatever."
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"Power is knowing your past."
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"Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience."
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"Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives."
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"Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies."
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"The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth."
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"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."
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"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
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"Great men never require experience."
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"Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction."
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"Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it"
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