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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." »Thomas Huxley
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"Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a hebrew accent." »Heinrich Heine
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"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth." »Goldie Hawn
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"In seven different Scriptures God has dogmatically stated 'build all things according to the pattern (blueprint) shown to you.' You don't repair a Chevrolet from the Ford repair manual. In like manner, Body truth is not found in hebrew doctrine. It's like trying to mix oil with water--it just can't be mixed" »Ron Garner
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." »Winston Churchill
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"Life is a long lesson in humility." »James M. Barrie
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." »Vernon Sanders Law
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"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well." »Dan Rather
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"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear." »Gaius Julius Caesar
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"Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson." »Vernon Law
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"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose." »John McEnroe
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"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." »Aldous Huxley
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"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest." »Henry Miller
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"The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world." »Frederick Chiluba
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"The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them." »William Fullbright
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"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think." »John Burroughs
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"When you wish to instruct, be brief that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to." »Unknown
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"Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives." »Clay P. Bedford
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"If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." »Sir Walter Besant
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"The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election." »Gerald R. Ford
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"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust." »Henry Stimson
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"When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and a clenched psyche grasped tightly against the reality of what must not be accepted cannot easily receive a lesson." »Roger John
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"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free." »J. Michael Straczynski
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"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic." »Winston Churchill
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