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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. – Harold MacMillan

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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. – Chauncey Wright

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My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who dont share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. – Colin Powell

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Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. – Michael Eisner

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