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• Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mother, Growing Up, Boys

  Sigmund Freud (2003). “Totem and Taboo”, p.19, Routledge

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• Pedialyte's a super-Gatorade that they give infants when they're dehydrated. It's on all our riders now. Drink a liter of grape Pedialyte and no hangover. The guys from Pantera taught us that trick.

  Sully Erna

  Hangover, Giving, Guy

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• I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

  Carlos Mencia

  People, Swim, Black

  "New Orleans Web Denizens Steamed Over Mencia's Orpheus Invite" by Lauren List, www.mardigras.com. February 05, 2009.

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• You'd think one day we'd learn. You don't get anything unless you fight for it, united and with visible numbers. If ACT UP taught us anything, it taught us that.

  Larry Kramer

  Fighting, Thinking, Numbers

  "Happy Birthday, ACT UP, Wherever You Are" by Larry Kramer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When we were growing up, our mother taught us never to have your belly button exposed.

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Mother, Growing Up, Buttons

  "Get to Know the Row" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 11, 2010.

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• In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing.

  Albert Camus

  Attitude, Character, Passion

  "The Myth of Sisyphus". Book by Albert Camus, 1942.

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• To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the universe, but merely one of nine planets circling one of billions of stars. From biology we learned that humans were not specially created by God but evolved along with tens of millions of other species.

  Jared Diamond

  Stars, Self, Earth

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• The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Adoption, Doe

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• An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Communication, Unusual Things, Years

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• Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'

  Ken Kesey

  Book, Writing, Class

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• My father's biggest achievement with us as children was that he taught us that everyone is human and equal, even your enemy has the same needs and wants that you do: understanding, love, inclusion.

  Rula Jebreal

  Children, Father, Achievement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

  Audre Lorde

  Action, Oppression, Enough

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.142, Crossing Press

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• I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

  Glenn Close

  Mother, Dog, Religious

  "Glenn Close Talks Seafood, Swimming With Sharks And Saving The Planet". Interview with Katherine Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• Wedding Singer taught us we shouldnt be afraid of making people feel emotional in the middle of the movie, rather than just dealing with comedy.

  Adam Sandler

  Emotional, People, Singers

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• Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jobs, Apples, Goal

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• The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.

  George Clooney

  Responsibility, Media, Years

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• The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Passion, Expression, Rushing

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• Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

  Henry Moore

  Wise, Gratitude, Grateful

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• All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

  John Ralston Saul

  Acceptance, Years, Differences

  John Ralston Saul (1997). “Reflections of a Siamese twin: Canada at the end of the twentieth century”, Viking Adult

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• Only when we fix our gaze on the heavenly things do we begin to understand the eternities. Only with the help of Christ can we fully overcome tragedy. It is necessary to develop our faith in Him as the Redeemer of the world. He taught us: “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

  Carlos H. Amado

  Cheer, Tragedy, Overcoming

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• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Indulge In

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• Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

  George Combe

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  George Combe (2010). “Notes on the United States of North America During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-39-40”, p.84, Cambridge University Press

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• Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.

  Cotton Mather

  Book, Reading, Scripture

  Cotton Mather (1815). “The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious Improvements”, p.11

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• Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

  Nelson Mandela

  Profound, Challenges, Experience

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.250, Pan Macmillan

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• It is impossible to realize our goals while discriminating against half the human race. As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

  Kofi Annan

  Race, Goal, Empowerment

  "International Women's Day". Official Records, www.ontla.on.ca. March 8, 2011.

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