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• It's an absurd error to put modern English literature in the curriculum. You should read contemporary literature for pleasure or not at all. You shouldn't be taught to monkey with it.

  Rebecca West

  Errors, Literature, Monkeys

  "Rebecca West, The Art of Fiction No. 65". Interview with Marina Warner, The Paris Review, No. 79, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1981.

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• The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Atoms, Littles, Little Things

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 5)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• It behoveth the sovereigns of the world may God assist them or the ministers of the earth to take counsel together and to adopt one of the existing languages or a new one to be taught to children in schools throughout the world, and likewise one script. Thus the whole earth will come to be regarded as one country.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Country, Children, School

  "Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh, 1978.

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• There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Taken, White

  "This I Believe" radio program, thisibelieve.org. 1951.

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• A new study found that students who are taught abstinence end up with better math scores. Of course, if you join the math team, the abstinence takes care of itself.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Team, Math, Care

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• How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn't saved, isn't taught?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Ignorant, Saved

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Skills, People, Needs

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.208, Shambhala Publications

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• Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!

  Abraham Cowley

  Wise, Art, Men

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• Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.

  Susan Sontag

  Taught Us, Blood, People

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• Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously I lost track of what I was taught.

  Tiger Woods

  Buddhism, Track, Unhappy

  Tiger Woods' Apology Speech, newsok.com. February 19, 2010.

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• My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

  Anne Lamott

  Father, Inspiration, Writing

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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  I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

  Channing Tatum

  People, Insane, Negative

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We all know or have read about someone who has been burned on social media. We have taught our kids not to post pictures publicly that could impact their future, but we have not yet taught ourselves that texts, messages and social media posts could be used just as maliciously or with as much downside as pictures.

  Mark Cuban

  Kids, Impact, Media

  "5 Questions With Mark Cuban About Online Privacy". Interview with John P. David, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

  Billy Cannon

  Teaching, Artist, Self

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• It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.

  Liz Tuccillo

  Falling In Love, Heart, Pride

  Liz Tuccillo (2008). “How to Be Single”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• You're wrong! That's not why Kagome was born! Kagome taught me how to smile, how to believe in people! Kagome was the reason I could make friends and rely on those friends! To shed tears for others, to understand true strength and kindness…They’re all things I learned from Kagome! Kagome was born to meet me! And I was born for her!

  Rumiko Takahashi

  Kindness, Believe, People

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• I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

  Tony Dorsett

  Growing Up, Dark, Night

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• I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools...I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing....I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.

  Jacob Lawrence

  Believe, School, Artist

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• One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.

  David Ulevitch

  Running, Boss, Way

  "Meet David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS" by Suzanne Herel, www.sfgate.com. September 26, 2010.

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the divine light that is within us all. It doesn't belong to any particular religion; it belongs to everyone.

  Muhammad Ali

  Heart, Light, Years

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Jesus, Fighting, Church

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.160, Vintage

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• The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference.

  Aldous Huxley

  Religious, Differences, Effectiveness

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

  Aldous Huxley

  Meaningful, Country, Children

  "Brave New World Revisited". Book by Aldous Huxley, Chapter 11 (p. 106), 1958.

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• We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Dream, Echoes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

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