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Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesira

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

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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. – Arthur Miller

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I know there are people who dont like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good – they dont bother me and when they do contact me its usually on the nicest possible terms. – James Taylor

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To choose dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. – Christopher Hitchens

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