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• Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Illusion, Lost

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• Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, School, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Labor, Oneself

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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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Training, Significant, Simplest

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

  Jane Fonda

  Assets

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• Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dream, Art, Faithful

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1257, Xist Publishing

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• While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Years, Space

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.368, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Events, Inevitable

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• It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.30

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• That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Daily Life, Life Is, Oneself

  D. H. Lawrence, Book House (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.805, Book House

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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.

  Albert Einstein

  Legitimacy, Justification, Concepts

  Albert Einstein (2014). “The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Purpose, Forget

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Tribulation, Parentheses, Omitting

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Littles, Way

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Without passions you have no experience whatever.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.235, Courier Corporation

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• Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Two, Darkness

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• Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

  Gunilla Brodde Norris

  Silence, Meditation, Who We Are

  "Find Your True Self Through Silence", www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2015.

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• Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Wall, Long, Stuff

  Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.34, Algonquin Books

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• We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

  Gautama Buddha

  Capacity

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• Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Simple, Design, Consciousness

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• Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Black, Graphic Artist

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• I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

  Luis Miguel

  Mistake, Dark, Hard Times

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• It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

  Robin Trower

  Journey, Singing, Weak

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• Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.

  April Greiman

  Creativity, Emotional, Design

  April Greiman (1990). “Hybrid imagery: the fusion of technology and graphic design”, Watson-Guptill Pubns

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