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  • Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
  • 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.
  • My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
  • The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
  • Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
  • Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
  • I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
  • Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
  • People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.
  • The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
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  • Bertolt Brecht The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aristotle Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • W. H. Auden ''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • William Jennings Bryan Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
    William Jennings Bryan
    American orator and politician (1860 - 1925)
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  • Toni Morrison Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Martin Luther Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of capacity, though I am persuaded if there was a commonwealth of rational horses... it would be an established maxim amongst them that a mare could not be taught to pace.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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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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  • Ching Ning Chu Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.
    Ching Ning Chu
    Chinese-American business consultant
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  • Walter Lippmann Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Billy Graham All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Malcolm X America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Barry Sanders Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Will Cuppy Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
    Will Cuppy
    American humorist and critic (1884 - 1949)
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  • Oscar Wilde Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Brad Feld As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bill Cosby As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my [younger] brother... Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Maya Angelou At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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