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• Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.

  David Richo

  Life Lesson, School, Fate

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

  S.M. Stirling

  Learning, Sometimes, Valuable

  S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.365, Penguin

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• I pray everywhere--in the shower, on a plane, in traffic, you name it. When I feel like I have had enough, I will literally take a knee, bow my head, and beg God for help and strength. I know not to beg Him for patience, because then He gives me situations in which I have to grow more patient; I learned that lesson! And if I am having a wonderful day, I will stop to thank Him. It's a relationship.

  Angie Harmon

  Prayer, Names, Giving

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• Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

  Fran Drescher

  Pain, Order, Chinese

  Fran Drescher (2002). “Cancer Schmancer”

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• No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Teacher, Teach, Prepared

  "American Heroes of Exploration and Flight". Book by Anne E. Schraff, p. 102, 1996.

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• Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was reminded of it during some of the long, drawn-out portions of JFK. However, nothing that Stone has directed or misdirected prepared me for the grotesque mess that is Natural Born Killers.

  James Berardinelli

  Doors, Names, America

  "Natural Born Killers". Movie Review, 1994.

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• The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a family that works and a business that works and the two will end up working well alongside.

  John Elkann

  Two, Together, Ends

  "Fiat's John Elkann Shares Family Business Views". FBNenews, December 15, 2010.

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• Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

  Maud Lindsay

  Flower, Writing, Bird

  Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.64, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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• The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

  Claudio Ranieri

  Champion, Attention, Pay

  "Chelsea are banking on Italian job". cnn.com. October 21, 2003.

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• North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un reportedly has had 15 of his top officials executed. So the lesson here is when Kim Jong Un comes to work with a new haircut, you tell him, 'Looking good, Un.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Kim, Korean, Dictator

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• I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.

  Kim Kardashian

  Girl, Cancer, Stupid

  "Kim Kardashian: my life as a brand" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, Rights, People

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• There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Mistake, Stupid, Book

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• The lessons near and far have taught us that our truth is Kuwait, and our involvement with this fact is what created for us, with God's graciousness, our victory set.

  Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

  Taught Us, Kuwait, Victory

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• Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.

  Alain Ducasse

  Mistake, Failure, Important

  "Alain Ducasse: 'No geniuses have ever come from the kitchen. We are simply the bridge between nature and our clients'". Interview with Eliza Anyangwe, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014.

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• I regret that he didn't do anything about it, even though he was at least a head taller than me. I wouldn't have minded bleeding at all for one more opportunity to give the kind of Bat Lesson that Finger, Robinson, Sprang and others only dreamed of.

  Jim Steranko

  Regret, Book, Opportunity

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• Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Kids, Fans

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• I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Jobs, Acting, Bizarre

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• Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Real, Body, Curious

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• The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, People, Evil

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.191, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's nice to be able to support programs like 5 Hole Threads' in our communities to keep more kids involved in sports. The Life lessons that are learned from being a teammate are so valuable. All kids deserve the chance to experience that.

  Dan Ellis

  Sports, Nice, Life Lesson

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• The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

  Harriet Martineau

  Heart, Taught Us, Mind

  Harriet Martineau, Linda H. Peterson (2007). “Autobiography”, Broadview Pr

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• The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Religious, Atheism, Groups

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1992). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”

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• I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.

  Brother Ali

  Life Lesson, White, Community

  Interview with David Brusie, music.avclub.com. April 26, 2007.

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