"What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave."
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"There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side."
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"One would appear ridiculous who would say, that it is only probable the sun will rise to-morrow, or that all men must die; thoughit is plain we have no further assurance of these facts than what experience affords us."
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"Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training."
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"Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair."
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"Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification."
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"If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't."
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"That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself."
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"An illusion which is a real experience is worth having."
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"Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience."
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"When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives."
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"Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal."
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"Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart."
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"Develop wisdom in sales by reflecting on your experience, and learning everything you can from every call."
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"But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction."
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"The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy."
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"The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience."
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"I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike."
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"... by indirections find directions out."
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"Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot."
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