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• We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Believe, Taught Us, Long

  Robert Charles Wilson (2004). “Blind Lake”, p.163, Macmillan

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• The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Mother, Children, Father

  "The First Sex". Book by Elizabeth Gould Davis. Chapter 7: "Mother-Right", 1971.

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• Our children should be taught to beware of everything foreign and not to disclose any state or party secrets to foreigners... for foreigners are eyes for their countries, and some of them are counterrevolutionary instruments [in the hands of imperialism].

  Saddam Hussein

  Country, Children, Party

  "Saddam Hussein: a political biography". Book by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, 2002.

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• All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc.

  Erik Naggum

  Years, Taught Us, Differences

  "Is CLOS reall OO?". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. May 5, 1998.

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• Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Trying, Attention, Want

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• In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.

  David Fontana

  Art, Self, Skills

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• We hope that all coal mines will learn from the bitter lessons these accidents have taught and will strengthen their safety precautions.

  Li Yizhong

  Safety, Lessons, Coal

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• Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.

  Scott Kahn

  Education, Artist, Guarantees That

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• Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Avid, Self

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• I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

  Helene Aylon

  Religious, Religion, Spells

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• There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Art, Jobs, Children

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• My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.

  Chris Abani

  Mom, Brother, War

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 22, 2014.

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• Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.

  John Buchan

  Running, Taught Us, Long

  "A University's Bequest to Yout". John Buchan's speech in Toronto (October 10, 1936), as quoted in John Buchan "Canadian Occasions", 1940.

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• Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure; Sighed to think I read a book Only read perhaps by me!

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Lonely, Philosophy, Loneliness

  "Sketches from Life" by Laman Blanchard. "Quotations", 1846.

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• Lo and behold! God made this
  starry wold,
  The maggot and the mold; lo and
  behold!
  He taught the grass contentment
  blade by blade,
  The sanctity of sameness in a shade.

  Nathalia Crane

  Contentment, Shade, Mold

  "Markham v. Prodigy". TIME magazine, November 23, 1925.

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• Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob composed of brilliant stones, by which God descends to Earth and man ascends to Heaven, till Earth and Heaven, and God and man, burning together in a conflagration of infinite charity, are transmuted into one.

  Juan Donoso Cortes

  Men, Wings, Heaven

  "Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism". Book by Juan Donoso Cortes, 1879.

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• Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.

  Lloyd deMause

  War, Simple, Peaceful

  "The Emotional Life of Nations". Book by Lloyd deMause, 2002.

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• I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.

  John Joseph Griffin

  Thinking, Desire, Fiction

  John Joseph Griffin (1838). “Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry”, p.14

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• The game taught me the game.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Games

  Edwin Lefèvre, Jon D. Markman (2010). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator: With New Commentary and Insights on the Life and Times of Jesse Livermore”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

  Jack McDevitt

  Ego, Challenges, Doe

  "Omega". Chapter 41. Book by Jack McDevitt, 2003.

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• It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.

  Allen Newell

  Plato, Taught Us, Space

  "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 125), March 1976.

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• I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.

  Stella Vine

  Running, School, Son

  "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." by Andrew Billen, The Times, June 15, 2004.

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• The most important things in life can't be seen with the eyes. Ideas can't be seen. Love can't be seen. Honor can't be seen. This isn't a new concept. Judaism and Christianity and Islam and Buddhism and Taoism have all taught for thousands of years that the highest forms of reality are invisible. God is invisible, and he created the universe. Our souls are invisible, and they give life to our bodies. Angels are invisible, and they're the most powerful of God's creatures.

  Anthony DeStefano

  Powerful, Eye, Angel

  Anthony DeStefano (2012). “Angels All Around Us: A Sightseeing Guide to the Invisible World”, p.18, Image

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• They [the teachers at European conservatories] taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Teacher, Teaching, Taught Us

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• Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual

  David Shenk

  Character, Ongoing, Environment

  David Shenk (2010). “The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ”, p.13, Anchor

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