Quotes with experience

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  • James Baldwin We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Abraham Lincoln We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Martin Luther King We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
    Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16 april 1963
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Foster We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Burt Rutan We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Mark Twain We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Washington 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
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bob Iger We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Ben Lovett We're incredibly excited to be launching Communion in America, where not only are there literally thousands of excellent musicians that we want to promote, but it's also a country full of passionate music fans that we want to feel part of the Communion experience. It's a massive deal for us to expand, and we cannot wait to get cracking.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Ann Veneman We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • James Joyce Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Joseph Campbell What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Henry Miller What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Bonnie Blair What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Blake What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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