Taught Us Quotes - Page 5

• My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Hopeful, Parent, Hateful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, Creativity, Crafts

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Neorealism taught us to follow the characters with the camera, allowing each shot its own real interior time. Well, I became tired of all this; I could no longer stand real time. In order to function, a shot must show only what is useful.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Real, Tired, Character

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and the ability to boost total spending by enough to put people back to work. As it happens there are long lists of important public projects that cry out to be done.

  Robert H. Frank

  Government, Long, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• [Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Expression, Appreciate, Poet

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Teacher, Important, Literature

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• America's time, unfortunately, for judgment has come. In fact, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught us it's not just the judgment of America, but it's a judgment of the world that has been affected by the Shaitan, or "Satan" of America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  America, World, Facts

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally.

  Kat Von D

  Animal, Reality, Years

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Pope Francis has taught us by his example how we can witness with our lives and actions to our faith and moral principles, but still engage respectfully with those who disagree. He's urged us to find a "new balance," going beyond the few wedge issues of our politics, so we do not lose the "freshness and fragrance of the Gospel."

  John I. Jenkins

  Issues, Balance, Principles

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Girl, Mother, Children

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• Another important aspect is that the masters taught us to move from a deeper source,not just from muscles and joints.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Moving, Important, Joints

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• Brexit was not a historical accident, after all. It taught us where the EU's real problems lie. And if we do not solve them, we will not prevent the anti-European currents in many EU countries, but rather encourage them.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Country, Real, Lying

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.

  Gene Robinson

  Believe, Moving, Teaching

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• My dad used to open up photo albums and stuff and you'd have to tell a story about the picture but you couldn't tell the truth so you had to make up a story about whatever you were looking at. He really taught us how to lie.

  Sara Quin

  Dad, Lying, Albums

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• The river taught us how to listen with a silent heart, with a waiting open soul.

  Hermann Hesse

  Heart, Rivers, Waiting

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• If the untimely battlefield deaths of generations of American heroes have taught us nothing else, it should be this unalterable fact: what you do with your time here on earth is far more important than the time you had to do it. Those who live most are those who love most, who act the noblest and do their best.

  Michael Mullen

  Hero, Important, Facts

  May 26, 2008.

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• In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Hearing, Doubters

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.17, University of Missouri Press

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• History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Long, Liberty, Quality

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• Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

  Pat Conroy

  Children, Men, Attention

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.

  Alan Keyes

  Law, America, Judging

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• Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises and constantly negotiate new deals with him. But history has taught us that the longer we pursue appeasement and do nothing, the higher the price will be later on. Dictators don't ask "Why?" before they seize even more power. They ask: "Why not?"

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Why Not, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.

  Francesca Marciano

  Pain, Loss, Scary

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• If reality TV has taught us anything, it's that you can't keep people with no shame down.

  LIZ

  Reality, People, Tvs

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• In praying for His enemies not only did Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us an hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as beyond the reach of prayer.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Hate, Perfect

  Arthur W. Pink (2005). “The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross”, p.20, Baker Books

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• Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.

  Max Planck

  Art, Cutting, Intellectual

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