I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure. ― Anthony Bourdain

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The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. ― Leo Babauta

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There is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it. ― Eric Weiner

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Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever. ― Anthony Bourdain

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. — Vernon Sanders Law

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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

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To win the Champions League, a team doesn't just need 11 professionals on the pitch, it needs 11 Lions, if you can use such an expression in Munich. - Luca Toni

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Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

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Then I began, as though I had never seen my shoes before, to study their expression, their mimelike movements when I moved my toes, their shape, and the worn-out leather they had; and I discovered that their wrinkles and their white seams gave them an expression, provided them with a face. Something of my own being had gone over into these shoes, they struck me as being a ghost of my "I," a breathing part of myself. . . . ― Knut Hamsun

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