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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory chil

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. – George Santayana

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Enough of this occupation, terror and abuse. We are not in need of your help. We are able to combat and defeat terrorism, and achieve unity. We are not in need of your bases, your experience and etc. – Muqtada al Sadr

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The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. – Milton Friedman

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I havent been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. Ive been very safe, very conservative with investments. I dont blow money. I dont have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. Ive already had that experience. – Jim Carrey

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An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody whos kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. – Andrew Greeley

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