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Quote by George Santayana
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a th

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. – George Santayana

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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana

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Hope
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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. – Albert Schweitzer

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Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. – Muhammad Iqbal

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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. – Joseph Addison

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I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. – Ang Lee

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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And thats really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So its very different. Youre out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasnt that fascinating. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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