Quotes with lesson

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  • Bill Rancic One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm - not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Barbara de Angelis Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Jerry Gillies People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Bruce Jackson Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Barbara Cooney She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
    Barbara Cooney
    American writer and illustrator (1917 - 2000)
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  • Donna Tartt Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Kirk Kirkpatrick Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening - she makes one.
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  • Billy Bragg That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Tom Bodett The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
    Tom Bodett
    American writer and actor (1955 - )
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  • Audre Lorde The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Huey Newton The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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  • Winston Churchill The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Allen Klein The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Richard Nixon The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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