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• We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Cutting, Legends

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.379, Spectra

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• I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get.

  Lea Salonga

  Teenager, Order, Voice

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• The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

  B. F. Skinner

  Jesus, Men, Opposites

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• I would like to you to become rooted into the earth. I am perfectly in agreement with Friedrich Nietzsche who says: "I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth and do not believe in those who speak of other worldly hopes!" Learn your first lesson of trust by trusting the earth. It is your home right now!

  Rajneesh

  Brother, Believe, Home

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• To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

  Will Graham

  Blessing, Grandfather, Dying

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• School of Rock. The best music school anywhere. This whole idea of getting kids not just taking lessons and learning notes and chords, but learning songs and playing with other young musicians, and getting out on stage... I was so impressed that my daughter Cheyenne goes to School of Rock on Long Island.

  Dee Snider

  Daughter, Song, School

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• I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

  Ricky Schroder

  Kids, Acting, Looking Good

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• Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

  Taylor Mali

  Lessons To Be Learned, Teach

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.34, Penguin

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• Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James

  Dream, Sibling, Life Lesson

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• Collateral learning in the way of formation of enduring attitudes, of likes and dislikes, may be and often is much more important than the spelling lesson or lesson in geography or history that is learned.

  John Dewey

  Attitude, Often Is, Likes And Dislikes

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Kappa Delta Pi

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• To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Demand, Faces

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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• When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

  Horace

  Teacher, Teaching, Moral

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• The campaign in Iraq illustrates the continuing progress of military technology and tactics, but if there is a single overriding lesson it must be this: American military power, especially when buttressed by Britain's, is virtually unchallengeable today. Take us on? Don't try! And that's not hubris, it's just plain fact.

  Wesley Clark

  Military, Technology, Iraq

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• I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is
  needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Punishment, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on
  our own, just as with life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Would Be, Valuable, Poetry Is

  Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter, November 26, 1825.

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• Wars become history all too soon and are forgotten all too soon as well, before the lessons can be learned.

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Forgotten, Wells

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• Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Life Changing, Lessons To Be Learned, Ideas

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• Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

  Jay Samit

  Teach

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources.

  Eugene Odum

  Men, Keys, Oasis

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• Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but
  whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Acting, Stories

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, townhall.com. August 26, 2008.

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• Part of company culture is path-dependent.  It’s the lessons you learn along the way.

  Jeff Bezos

  Culture, Way, Path

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• Action first, mistakes second, lessons third.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Mistake, Firsts, Action

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• Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, World, Way

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• I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.

  Charlie Munger

  Regret, Taken, Past

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• The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

  Charlie Munger

  Hard Lessons, Hard

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