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"For aesthetics is the mother of ethics…. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens."	Joseph Brodsky
"Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement."	Fred Brooks
"One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing."	Gene Brown
"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."	Rita Mae Brown
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."	William Jennings Bryan
"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."	(Carl) Frederick Buechner
"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
"Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience."	Joseph Campbell
"I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive."	Joseph Campbell
"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience."	Miguel de Cervantes
"Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm."	Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."	Noam Chomsky
"To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions."	Deepak K. Chopra
"Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either."	Jerry Coleman
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."	Confucius
"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."	James Scott "Jimmy" Connors
"Being filled with the Holy Spirit, then, is a matter of obedience to the Word of God. The filling of the Spirit that all experienced at Pentecost was a matter of a promise being fulfilled. Today, the believer is to be filled in obedience to the command of Ephesians 5:18, continuously, not merely by a single, crisis experience. The Christian life is a growth process toward maturity."	Clarence Cramer
"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
"You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the Oval Office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis."	John
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