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  • The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
  • I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
  • We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
  • My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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  • Carole Bouquet A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
    Carole Bouquet
    French actress and fashion (1957 - )
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  • B.F. Skinner Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
    New Scientist 22 (392), 21 May 1964, pp.483-4.
    B.F. Skinner
    American behaviorist (1904 - 1990)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Benito Mussolini I am making superhuman efforts to educate this people. When they have learnt to obey, they will believe what I tell them.
    As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Agatha Christie I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Ben Affleck I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Carol Bellamy Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
    Carol Bellamy
    American nonprofit executive (1942 - )
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  • Ben Elton My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders People are starting to see that now and I've learnt more from those 10 rounds than I have in my previous 10 fights.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Cat Stevens The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • V.S. Naipaul When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Carmen Laforet When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.
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  • John Berger When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Bella Heathcote You know, he's a bit of a rock star, but I think he's consciously learnt how to make people feel comfortable around him. Because otherwise, how could anyone act opposite him? The whole time you'd be thinking, 'My god, it's Johnny Depp!'
    Bella Heathcote
    Australian actress (1987 - )
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