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We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. ↗

— George Washington

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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. ↗

— Bill Watterson

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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. ↗

— Alan Watts

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I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it. ↗

— Lil Wayne

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I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ↗

— George Whitefield

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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient. ↗

— Charles Williams

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I experienced a lot of loss after his death. I lost my city because of all the paparazzi descending upon us. I actually lost my journal during that time, oddly enough. I literally couldn't hold on to anything. ↗

— Michelle Williams

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