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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Bethenny Frankel Exercise is like an old friend: You may not be able to see that friend all the time, but you're not mad when you see them, you're happy, and you get right back into it.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • John Updike Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ben Saunders Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
    Ben Saunders
    British explorer
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Eugène Delacroix Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Heinrich Heine Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Minna Thomas Antrim Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • Gita Bellin Experience is determined by yourself - not the circumstances of your life.
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  • Aldous Huxley Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry James Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • C. S. Lewis Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Barry Diller Facebook's the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody's personal information. It's got a very good chance of being that.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind's throwing?
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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