“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.”
— Andrew Cohen
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“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”
— Georges Clemenceau
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“A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.”
— William Kingdon Clifford
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“Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.”
— Susan Orlean
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“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”
— John Stuart Mill
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
— Albert Einstein
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“We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.”
— George Washington
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“God is only a great imaginative experience.”
— David Herbert Lawrence
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“Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.”
— Carlos Fuentes
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“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought.”
— Vaclav Havel
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
— Khalil Gibran
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