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There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius

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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become ones key to the experience of others. – James A. Baldwin

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Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion thats there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile. – Edward Zwick

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