Taught Us Quotes - Page 2

• Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Stars, Kings, Drama

  "THE AVENGERS Star Tom Hiddleston Writes Eloquent Editorial in Defense of Superhero Movies" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 20, 2012.

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• God gave us our agency. He taught us a way. He showed us what to do. But he gave us our agency and left us free to act as we choose to do.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Agency, Way, Left

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. December 26, 2004.

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• My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

  James Earl Jones

  Grandmother, Thinking, Racism

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• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Sports, Opportunity, Games

  "Olympics: Now make a level playing field for women" by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I'm thankful for Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid, which taught us that Alaska is not in a box off the coast of California.

  Paula Poundstone

  Alaska, California, Presidential

  "Thanksgiving Is Not Just for Leftovers" by Paula Poundstone, November 26, 2008.

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• Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Intelligence, Madness

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• Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

  Kesha

  Taught, Certain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

  Donny Osmond

  Father, Work Ethic, Ethics

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• As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

  Joyce Meyer

  Lifestyle Choices, Excuse, Misuse

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• The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

  Sigmund Freud

  Ambition, Character, Bed

  Sigmund Freud (2012). “The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud”, p.544, Modern Library

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• The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

  Black Elk

  Girl, Warrior, Boys

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

  Tony Campolo

  Parent, Lines, Good Person

  "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?

  George S. Clason

  Two, Training, Kind

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.19, Lulu.com

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• When I was doing 'Generation Kill' in Africa I worked with five really super-trained Navy SEALs who taught us all these moves like how to disarm people: if there's a bar fight and someone's got a chair or there's someone with a gun behind our head, how to disable them and take them down in a swift move.

  Kellan Lutz

  Moving, Fighting, Gun

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• 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

  Islands, Sea, Despair

  "The lobbyist rock star", www.cnn.com. April 19, 2004.

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• From the beginning of my days, it comes right back down to my parents. Raising all the kids. They really taught me principles of hard work, honesty and integrity. Those are the things that will always carry with you. My brother and I carry on those qualities that my parents have taught us. It helps keep me in check.

  Charlie Brenneman

  Brother, Honesty, Integrity

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Oh, give our frightened souls the sure salvation for which, O Lord, You taught us to prepare. And when this cup You give is filled to brimming with bitter suffering, hard to understand, we take it thankfully and without trembling, out of so good and so beloved a hand. Yet when again in this same world You give us the joy we had, the brightness of Your Sun, we shall remember all the days we lived through, and our whole life shall then be Yours alone.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hands, Giving, Joy

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• My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Block, Military, Father

  Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. April 15, 2009.

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• I guess we didn't even officially apologize. Jesse Jackson called on the United States to officially apologize to the Chinese. Jesse said, 'An apology is not a sign of weakness.' And as President Clinton has taught us, an apology isn't even a sign you're sorry.

  Jay Leno

  Sorry, Apology, Chinese

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• I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Important, Taught

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• If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.

  Philip Gambone

  Smart, Lovely, Messages

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• The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Father, Women

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• Science has taught us to lengthen life. Now we must learn to make a longer life worth living. Older people deserve choices that let us live out our days as we wish. We've seen people making such choices all over America, and we realize what we might have known from the start: For most of us, there really is no place like home.

  Helen Hayes

  Learning, Home, America

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• I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Religious, Powerful

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• Reality has taught us that no woman can build an honest life without sacrificing something along the way. Deciding what will be sacrificed is not easy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sacrifice, Reality, Way

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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