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Quote by George Eliot
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have nume

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? – George Eliot

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The best augury of a mans success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. – George Eliot

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Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. – Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932

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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. – Muhammad Iqbal

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I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I dont know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly cant think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. Im sure theyre there, but Id have to think really hard to recall them. – Scott Baio

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It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. – David Bowie

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