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Quote by Abigail Adams
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lesson

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. – Abigail Adams

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. – Abigail Adams

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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. – Abigail Adams

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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because its complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and hes able to keep processing that as well. – V. S. Naipaul

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Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise. – William Whewell

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Ive never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy… Ive always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasnt like, Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school. I had a great high-school experience. – Jonah Hill

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Louis Malle was the best filmmaker Ive ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience. – Brooke Shields

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Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness. – Dar Williams

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But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. – Roy Barnes

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