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• From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

  John Quincy Adams

  Past, Lessons

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• 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

  Differences, Judging, Making A Difference

  "A Latina Judge’s Voice". Sonia Sotomayor’s Speech at the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal’s Symposium, www.law.berkeley.edu. October 26, 2001.

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• Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

  Hal Borland

  Love, Funny, Life

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• Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.

  Bruce Wilkinson

  Trust, God, Faith

  Bruce Wilkinson (2009). “The Dream Giver: Following Your God-Given Destiny”, p.120, Multnomah

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• No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

  Paulo Freire

  Self, World, Becoming

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• No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Faith, God, Christian

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspirational, Sympathy, God

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• Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Winning, Fire

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

  Sydney Banks

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Moving On, Taught Us, Fundamentals

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• A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

  Kathy Bates

  Heart, Mind, Want

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• The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

  Robert Graves

  Religious, Exaltation, Use

  Robert Graves (2011). “The White Goddess”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• Experience is always larger than language.

  Adrienne Rich

  Language

  1991 Interview in theAmerican Poetry Review, Jan-Feb.

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• There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

  T. S. Eliot

  Quartets, Seems, Values

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Fashion, Hair, Crisis

  1903 The Land of Little Rain,'The Basket Maker'.

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• There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Investment, Innocent, Colour

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• History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

  Edward Gibbon

  Political, Should, Economist

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• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Wisdom Experience, Knowledge Experience

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• It's not what happens to you, It's what you do about it.

  W Mitchell

  Encouraging Words, Affirmation, Purpose Driven Life

  "WAKE UP: Are You Thinking or Just Reacting to Your Life?" by Russell Bishop, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Doe, Study

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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