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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they sho

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. – W. H. Auden

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If were picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a new Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. – Antonin Scalia

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A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. Ill be cleaning out my trailer and saying goodbye soon, realizing what a wonderful experience this has been. – Dennis Franz

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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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