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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. – Rebecca West

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Trust
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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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History
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Life
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. – Denis Waitley

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. – Richard Dawkins

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Experience

I learn from experience. – Alan Dershowitz

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No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power. – James Cash Penney

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Experience

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Elder sisters never can do younger ones justice! – Charlotte M. Yonge

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To me, the sea is like a person — like a child that Ive known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when Im out there. – Gertrude Ederle

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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