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• Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

  Billy Connolly

  Swimming, Feelings, Let It Go

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• Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?

  Bill Maher

  Spiritual, Believe, Marijuana

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

  Howie Mandel

  Writing, Needed, Jokes

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• Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Fifty, Want, Audience

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

  Louis C. K.

  Fun, Happens, Knows

  "Meet Louis CK: the nicest guy in massively offensive comedy" by James Kettle, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2011.

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• You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created by people who aren't writers and they're second guessing how they think you would like to see them behave if this were a real situation, which it's not. And you are passively observing this; watching an amateur production of nothing. It's like a photo of a drawing of a hologram.

  Dana Gould

  Real, Thinking, Drawing

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• Everything is a once in a lifetime experience.

  Kobi Yamada

  Once In A Lifetime, Uniqueness, Lifetime

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• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

  Don Marquis

  Optimism, Guy, Definitions

  Archy and mehitabel "certain maxims of archy" (1927)

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• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

  Douglas Adams

  Wise, Funny Life, Short Life

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.716, Pan Macmillan

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• You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

  Stella Adler

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.65, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Strength, Education, Wisdom

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.13, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.

  Roger Bacon

  Queens, Science, Long

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  Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

  Wernher von Braun

  Wisdom, Witty, Humorous

  "Work, Society, and Culture". The New York Times, December 16, 1957.

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• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Teacher, Educational

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• It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book”, p.356

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• A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Two, Imagination

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• To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

  Pema Chodron

  Alive, Nests, Awake

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Littles, Way

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Without passions you have no experience whatever.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.235, Courier Corporation

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• Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Two, Darkness

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• People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

  Dieter Rams

  People, Clear, Positively

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• I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, Japan, Creating

  "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

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