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"What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else."	Joseph Campbell
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."	Miguel de Cervantes
"If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism."	Marquis de Sade
"The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment; And the best comrade is one that hath no desire."	Tibetan Doctrine
"It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man."	Professor Elledge
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times; But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly, Until they take root in our personal experience."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."	Harold Green
"The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination."	Elizabeth Hardwick
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..."	Václav Havel
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born - a shifting of culture, science, society and institutions enormously greater than the world has ever experienced. Ahead, the possibility of regeneration of individuality, liberty, community and ethics such as the world has never known, and a harmony with nature, with one another and with the divine intelligence such as the world has always dreamed."	Dee W. Hock
"To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences; to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not."	Leonard Hodgson
"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."	Helen Adams Keller
"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."	Giacomo Leopardi
"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."	Anais Nin
"Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author."	John Keats
"Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it."	Author Unknown
"Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones."	Author Unknown
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Deepak K. Chopra	Dee W. Hock	Derwood Fincher
Dietrich Bonhoeffer	Dominique Bouhours	Douglas Noel Adams
Dr. Samuel Johnson	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow	Elbert Hubbard
Elizabeth Hardwick	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	Eugene Kennedy
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
Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller	Henry Ford
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