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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

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One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

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Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

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Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.

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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

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