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  • Nicolas Chamfort Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Dale Carnegie Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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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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  • Edmund Burke The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Brandon Cruz The crew knew because they had heard from other people, and when I showed up on the set the next day, they were all looking at me kind of weird. I told them that Bill always taught me that whenever something bad like that happens, the best thing to do is work.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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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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  • Ashley Montagu The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Aldous Huxley The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Lord Arthur Balfour The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
    Lord Arthur Balfour
    British statesman (1848 - 1930)
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  • Nathaniel P. Willis The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
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  • Anita Brookner The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The one thing men have not learned to do is to stick up for their own instinctive feelings, against the things they are taught.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bryce Courtenay 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.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Ben Vereen The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.
    Ben Vereen
    American actor, dancer and singer (1946 - )
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  • Vauvenargues The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Igor Stravinsky The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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