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• Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. -- J. Winter Smith
• Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others.
  They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way....
• It is cheaper to borrow the mistakes of others than to pay for your own. -- Palmer Styles -8/94
• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
  Douglas Adam...
• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and this is not learning from experience.
  -- Laurence J. Pete...
• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
  -- Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See...
• You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do.
  -- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book...
• Just weigh your own hurt against the hurt of all the others, and then do what's best.
  -- Lovers and Other Strange...