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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."	Douglas Noel Adams
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."	Franklin P. Adams
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."	Woody Allen
"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself."	Alfred Jules Ayer
"Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away."	Richard David Bach
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."	James Arthur Baldwin
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."	Bernard Mannes Baruch
"Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart."	Henry Ward Beecher
"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."	Ludwig van Beethoven
"Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!"	Joachim du Bellay
"Bill Dickey is learning me his experience."	Lawrence Peter Berra
"For his anger lasts only a brief moment, and his good favor restores one's life. One may experience sorrow during the night, but joy arrives in the morning."	Psalms 30:5 Bible
"It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow."	Josh Billings
"Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless."	Dominique Bouhours
"Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind."	Catherine Drinker Bowen
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."	F. H. Bradley
"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."	Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience."	Jacob M(orton) Braude
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Forest McDonald	Francis Bacon	Franklin P. Adams
Franklin P. Jones	Fred Brooks	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F. H. Bradley	Gene Brown	George Lucas
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Giacomo Leopardi	Harold Green
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Henry Ward Beecher	Henry Havelock Ellis	Henry James
Herbert Fenstermeim	Jacob M(orton) Braude	James Arthur Baldwin
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Russel Lowell	James Scott "Jimmy" Connors
Jerry Coleman	Joachim du Bellay	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Huizinga	John	John Dewey
John Keats	Joseph Brodsky	Joseph Campbell
Josh Billings	Kahlil Gibran	Lavina Goodell
Lawrence Kubie	Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonard Hodgson
Loren Klein	Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Ludwig van Beethoven
Manly P. Hall	Marquis de Sade	Miguel de Cervantes
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Napolean Hill	Noam Chomsky
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oscar Levant	Oscar Wilde
Paul Newman	Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield	Professor Elledge
Psalms 30:5 Bible	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard David Bach
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Rita Mae Brown	Robert
Robert Francis Kennedy	Stanley Lindquist	Stephen King
Sybil Marshall	Søren Aaby Kierkegaard	Terry Josephson
Tibetan Doctrine	Ty Howard	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh
Vernon Law	Václav Havel	William Jennings Bryan
William Orville Douglas	Woody Allen	(Carl) Frederick Buechner