Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

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Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

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Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive. - Al Neuharth

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And remember that within every lie, there is a truth hidden. Know the truth to defeat the lie. ― T. A. Miles, Raventide

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There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing. ― Robert Burton

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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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Peter Jackson was very good to me after I made my first film, he was really one of the best things that happened after that movie. I was invited to New Zealand to go hang out with him on 'The Hobbit', and so for two weeks I got to sit next to him and watch him direct, and it was the most amazing experience you could ever have. - Gareth Edwards

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The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. — Epictetus

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

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