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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I did not see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I did not know I needed help.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.

Imagine a judicial nominee said my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman. Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

But it is a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.

I think I am basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I have learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I am not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.

Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.