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  • Bethany Hamilton 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!
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Carrie Fisher If anything, my mother taught me how to sur-thrive. That's my word for it.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Fran Tarkenton If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Audre Lorde 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
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bono 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.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Barry Marshall 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.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Barry Unsworth In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Agnes Repplier 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.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Richard of Saint Victor 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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  • B. Carroll Reece Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Smiles 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.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Aristotle It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan 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.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Annie Leibovitz Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Bernard Berenson Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
    Bernard Berenson
    American art historian (1865 - 1959)
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  • Alexander Herzen Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Louis Menand 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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  • Asa Gray 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.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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