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• [About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Taught Us, Long, Evil

  Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil ch. 15 (1963)

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• The life of Lincoln should never be passed by in silence by young or old. He touched the log cabin and it became the palace in which greatness was nurtured. He touched the forest and it became to him a church in which the purest and noblest worship of God was observed. His occupation has become associated in our minds with the integrity of the life he lived. In Lincoln there was always some quality that fastened him to the people and taught their to keep time to the music of his heart.

  David Swing

  Integrity, Heart, Greatness

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• And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.

  Pat Buchanan

  Religious, Children, Book

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• [The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Meditation, Cameras, Energy

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• A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.

  James M. Cain

  Writing, College, Typewriters

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• I was taught very well. My mom raised me very well, and so did my dad. I've been very blessed to have great parents that cared about me.

  Justin Bieber

  Mom, Dad, Blessed

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I'm always wondering what is the job that gives the writer the most amount of time to write. I still don't know what the answer is as someone who has taught and is now working at a grocery store.

  Ali Liebegott

  Jobs, Writing, Giving

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• If the internet has taught us anything, it's that you want less news and more cats.

  Peter Sagal

  Cat, Taught Us, News

  "Heavy Petting". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, July 4, 2015.

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• Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'

  Ray Lewis

  Mom, Kids, Working Parents

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Taught Us, Special, Hollywood

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• My father taught me to not fear anything. Having said that, much of my addiction to alcohol and drugs was tied to fear: fear of flying, fear of talking to women, etc. I conquered those fears years ago.

  Derek Sanderson

  Father, Talking, Years

  "Q&A: 10 Questions With Hockey Legend Derek Sanderson". "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight ", www.cbc.ca. October 27, 2012.

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• I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from anything that we wish to do or want to do.

  LaToya Jackson

  Block, Feet, Wish

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• I had an amazing advantage: a grandmother [Polly Noonan, an influential confidante of the mayor of Albany] who loved politics. She taught me not to listen to negative press or people. I grew up knowing politics was rough-and-tumble.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Grandmother, Knowing, People

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• It's important to note that Jesus and Christ are two different faith affirmations. Hardly any Christians have been taught that - they think "Christ" is Jesus's last name.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

  David Bezmozgis

  Limits

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.

  Camille Paglia

  Exercise, Feminist, Feminism

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• I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

  Amy Tan

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  "Fictional character: An-Mei". "The Joy Luck Club", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Jobs, Keys, Poetry

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

  Ella Winter

  Struggle, Fighting, Fruit

  Ella Winter (1963). “And not to yield: an autobiography”

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• It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Mother, Cat, Journey

  Selma Lagerlöf (1936). “Mårbacka”

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• If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Past, Government, Years

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Pain, Long, Silence

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all, loved and loving and asking very little from the outer world, because they have more than enough within. They are classed as the dreamers, but they are really seers. They do not ask much and they do not need much beyond a reverent guardianship and to be let alone and allowed to grow; they will find this way for they are 'taught of God.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Children, Eye, Air

  Janet Erskine Stuart (2012). “The Education of Catholic Girls”, p.49, tredition

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• When once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.

  Harriet Martineau

  Sports, Ideas, Waiting

  Harriet Martineau (2006). “Autobiography”, p.157, Broadview Press

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• Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.

  Dervla Murphy

  Reality, Sick, Growth

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