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  • Barbara Bush Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Junot Diaz But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
    Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 209
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Al Unser Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
    Al Unser
    American automobile racing driver (1939 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
    A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Vauvenargues Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Beilby Porteus Envy, eldest born of hell, embru'd Her hands in blood, and taught the sons of men To make which nature never made, And God abhorr'd.
    Beilby Porteus
    English Bishop and reformer (1731 - 1809)
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  • Calvin Trillin Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Anita Desai Ever since I could first write I have been doing so. When I was taught how to write and read at school, I made up my mind that this was what I love to do best and this was the world I was going to occupy.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Betty Buckley Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Ben Stein Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
    Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation. Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Walter Benjamin Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • A. E. Housman Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act... The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.
    The Name and Nature of Poetry
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Donald Trump Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • Mark Twain Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alan Cohen Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught respect, and you were taught to be humble. That has a lot to do with how I am now, because I'm still scared of my dad.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bill Nunn Fortunately, I never had to do the waiter thing. When I got out of college, I immediately started to teach acting. One of the first jobs I had was in a federally-funded program where I taught drama to young people.
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  • John Dryden Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Beth Ditto Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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