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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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"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 man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers." »Earl Nightingale
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"I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." »Peter Cooper
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"Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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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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"The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984 Book 3, Chapter 3
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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." »George Orwell, 1984
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"It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind." »Alexander Hamilton Stephens
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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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"When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears." »Gene Oliver
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"Life is a long lesson in humility." »James M. Barrie
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." »Winston Churchill
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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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"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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"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 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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"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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"Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start with a lie rarely end well." »Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005
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"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time." »Author Unknown
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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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"To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object." »Simone de Beauvoir
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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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"Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned." »Erykah Badu, A line from the song "On & On"
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