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What I want you to take away from my life story is just how important it is to defend your freedom, at all costs. Experience has shown me that if you lose your freedom, you are condemned to fail. ↗

— Leon Schgrin

#holocausts #leon-schagrin #the-horse-adjutant #experience

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#experience

Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination ↗

— Steve Aylett

#humor #life #love #experience

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva. ↗

— Josh Groban

#either #opera #rock #rock star #shower

When you always expect the worst you can never experience the best. ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#inspirational #jayce #jayceoneal #experience

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello. ↗

— David Baldacci

#train #experience

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#experience

The function of a book is to provide a reading experience. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#books #reading #experience

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#knowledge #language #trees #words #experience

Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#jobs #life #experience