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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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"The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the language of word." »Kedar Joshi
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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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"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language." »Johnson
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"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate." »Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand." »Sir Edward Appleton
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"Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf
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"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language." »Henry David Thoreau
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"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency." »William Carlos Williams
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language." »Cicero
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"language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom." »John A. Rassias
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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." »Nelson Mandela
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"Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try." »Homer Simpson
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"Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either." »Herki Siider
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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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"When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears." »Gene Oliver
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"Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett
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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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"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism." »North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
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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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"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." »Unknown
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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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"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose." »John McEnroe
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"Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson." »Vernon Law
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