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• The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Dog, Moving

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• I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Honor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

  Sarah Manguso

  Suffering, Important, Attention

  Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta

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• The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.

  Jared Kushner

  Family Love, The End Of The Day, Stuff

  "Jared Kushner, Trump's Unlikely Wing Man" by Rebecca Berg, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

  Jan Hellriegel

  Life Lesson, Ignorant, Want

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• The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
  teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

  Rocky Bleier

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

  Patrick Collison

  Technology, Clouds, Important

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• I didn't understand at the time why Vince was so interested in teaching me life lessons when all I was trying to do was get my video played. But now I think it's because he saw a little bit of himself in me. Just like me, he was a rebel who listened to no one and did whatever it took to get the job done, pissing people off with his stubbornness and drive in the process. Therefore, he was trying to teach me how to better myself instead of repeatedly getting into trouble by rubbing people the wrong way.

  Chris Jericho

  Jobs, Life Lesson, Teaching

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• We in politics are accustomed to seeing reality firsthand and then watching its distant cousin, events as portrayed by the media, unfold on our televisions. We know that what happened in Congress and what is reported to have taken place are two very different things. But that disjuncture, so familiar to politicians, is new to the viewing public. By seeing war and war coverage juxtaposed nightly on their screens, Americans have learned the crucial lesson: not to trust the news anchors.

  Dick Morris

  Cousin, War, Taken

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• We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Thinking, Should Have

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• And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when Saddam showed up waving stacks of Francs in exchange for bang-sticks.

  James Lileks

  Country, Years, Bangs

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• A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Past, Games

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• The biggest lesson I learned from my dad is to support children even if they're doing something that is unorthodox.

  Tony Hawk

  Children, Dad, Support

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• Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons . . . don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!

  Jorge Cruise

  Track, Focus, Challenges

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• The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Life Lesson, Humble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

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• The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.

  Horace

  Memories, May, Poet

  Horace (1928). “Horace on the Art of Poetry: Latin Text, English Prose Translation, Introduction and Notes, Together with Ben Jonson's English Verse Rendering”

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• Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Experience, Use

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• ... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Suffering, Way, Century

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

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• Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Teaching, Air, Heartbreaking

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• One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.234, Рипол Классик

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• Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Suffering, Indolence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Harvard University Press

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• There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Mistake, Might, Committed

  Richard Chenevix Trench (1856). “On the lessons in Proverbs: being the substance of lectures delivered to young men's societies at Portsmouth and elsewhere; from the Second London edition, rev. and enlarged”, p.89

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• After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. As Ruskin wrote in his earlier and better days, "No weight nor mass nor beauty of execution can outweigh one grain or fragment of thought.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Weight, Execution, Better Days

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• Never lie to your mother. That's like the biggest lesson that I learned, learned throughout my life, you know?

  Bristol Palin

  Mother, Lying, Never Lie

  "Bristol Palin Opens Up About New Book". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Over the long term, despite significant drops from time to time, stocks (especially an intelligently selected stock portfolio) will be one of your best investment options. The trick is to GET to the long term. Think in terms of 5 years, 10 years and longer. Do your planning and asset allocation ahead of time. Choose a portion of your assets to invest in the stock market - and stick with it! Yes, the bad times will come, but over the truly long term, the good times will win out - and I hope the lessons from 2008 will help get you there to enjoy them.

  Joel Greenblatt

  Winning, Thinking, Years

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