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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960) -
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? 'Tell me a story.' That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.
Middlesex (2003) 197 -
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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The legislator learns that when you talk a lot, you get in trouble. You have to listen a lot to make deals.
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The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.
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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality.
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