“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams
“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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If there is anything worse than international
“If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.”
— Paul Harris
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Life is like playing a violin solo
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
— Samuel Butler
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In my experience, it is rarer to
“In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.”
— Thor Heyerdahl
Author: Thor Heyerdahl
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I was quite able at the insignificant
“I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit.”
— John le Carre
Author: John le Carre
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In my experience, there is only one
“In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.”
— Jane Smiley
Author: Jane Smiley
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You can learn more from the lows
“You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.”
— Wayne Rooney
Author: Wayne Rooney
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As human beings, we are vulnerable to
“As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.”
— Al Gore
Author: Al Gore
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People grow through experience if they meet
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that
“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
— George Eliot
Author: George Eliot
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