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Quote by Samuel Smiles
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. – Samuel Smiles

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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. – Samuel Smiles

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Failure
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. – Samuel Smiles

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Labor
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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. – Samuel Smiles

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I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. – Ang Lee

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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. – Jack Kevorkian

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Experience

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams

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Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder. – David Copperfield

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The common question that gets asked in business is, why? Thats a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not? – Jeff Bezos

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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. – Elizabeth Gaskell

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The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees. – John Bruton

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