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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesir

Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. – Ambrose Bierce

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In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. – Ambrose Bierce

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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. – Ambrose Bierce

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By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering. – Roger Ascham

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When they call the slightest spending reductions painful, we will say If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it? And If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on. – Mitch Daniels

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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience. – Jack Kevorkian

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Certainly Ive had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another. – John Hawkes

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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality. – Sigmund Freud

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