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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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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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Knowledge
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Ive always felt that a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. – Abigail Adams

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Intelligence
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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams

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It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them. – Godfrey Reggio

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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. – Harold MacMillan

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Being a biological mother just isnt part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues to give birth to ideas and ways of experiencing life that challenge the norm. – Kim Cattrall

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In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be. – Alberto Moravia

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Humor that is edgy is never squeaky clean. – Jeff Ross

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The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded. – Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Its been my experience that every time I think I know where its at, its usually somewhere else. – Blake Edwards

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