"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."

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Source : Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “History of the French Revolution of 1848”, p.19

Alphonse de Lamartine

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“I like to dirt bike ride, four wheeler, go-kart.”

Source : "Actor RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad". "Ouch" with Mat Frazer and Liz Carr, www.bbc.co.uk. November 10, 2008.
“Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story...your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for awhile, we're less alone.”

Source : "Beautiful Ruins: A Novel". Book by Jess Walter, 2012.
“the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.”
“I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.”
“Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.”
“The philosophical underpinnings of my approach to acting are that there are universal human qualities, and that every character is actually available within each one of us, that if we tap down into that universal humanness, we can find whatever character it is that we need to play already there within ourselves, and it's just a matter of peeling apart the onion that is you and finding that character within you, because of this universal human quality.”
“War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle.”
“The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.”

Source : Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”

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