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Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy,

Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. – John Updike

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. – John Updike

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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Experience is determined by yourself — not the circumstances of your life. – Gita Bellin

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. – E. M. Forster

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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. – Thomas Jefferson

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The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. – John Frusciante

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Todays interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. – Naguib Mahfouz

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If Im playing in the morning, Ill get some carbs early: porridge with chopped banana. If Im playing in the afternoon, Ill start with less carbs and have some eggs and fruit for breakfast, then a light lunch about 90 minutes before I play, so I dont feel sluggish or full. – Rory McIlroy

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When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going. – J. B. Priestley

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