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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forc

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. – Henri Poincare

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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. – Henri Poincare

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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. – Henri Poincare

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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. – John Stuart Mill

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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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The reward of suffering is experience. – Harry S. Truman

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Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economys long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes. – Mark Zandi

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. – Jean de la Bruyere

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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. – Jane Austen

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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine. – Bashar al-Assad

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Listen to life, and you will hear the voice of life crying, Be! – James Dillet Freeman

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