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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

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