Quotes 61 till 80 of 171.
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I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!
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If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 142 -
If September 11th has taught us anything, it's certainly that the world has never been so interdependent. It is impossible now to be an island of prosperity in a sea of despair.
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If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
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In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.
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In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
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Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
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James Thurber was an inspiration because his drawings were so primitive. I am self-taught - I didn't go to art school - so I thought when I started doing them, 'If James Thurber can be a cartoonist, I can,' because his stuff is very raw.
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Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
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Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison - a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
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Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen; animals of one of four elements, nitrogen being added to the other three.
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