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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. – George Bernard Shaw

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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration. – Barney Frank

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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. – John Dewey

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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. – Muhammad Iqbal

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