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• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground… — Walter Benjamin
• We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H.G. Wells
• To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a… — David Hume
• First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is… — Rajneesh
• I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest… — Bertrand Russell
• The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in… — Paul Clitheroe
• The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of… — James Madison
• We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states]… — James Madison
• There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience,… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that… — Walker Percy
• My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the… — Thomas Troward
• If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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