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• Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.

  Joan Robinson

  Teacher, Errors, Long

  "Economic Philosophy". Book by Joan Robinson, p. 79 (2006 edition), 1962.

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• It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Children, School, Sunday

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.572, 1895.

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• A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.

  Jo Coudert

  Sex, Loneliness, Roots

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• As a Fundamentalist I had discovered while I was in college that it is possible to dismiss the entire Church as having gone off the rails by about AD 95. That is, we, with our open Bibles, knew better than did old Ignatius or Clement, who had been taught by the very apostles themselves, just what the Church is and what it should look like.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Bible, College, Church

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• everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's taught, in the hope of acquiring the skill. It's called Modern Living, and you get no credit.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Skills, Credit, Way

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• If it had taught them nothing else, twenty years of living past high school had taught them self-preservation. ... No one was going to risk putting his ego on the line; they would come prepared with dates, flattering clothes, and a well-rehearsed, carefully edited biography. They would all be kind to each other. High school was enough torture for one lifetime.

  Sharyn McCrumb

  School, Past, Self

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• If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.

  Gertrude Lawrence

  Determination, Done, My Own

  Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”

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• I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

  Donalyn Miller

  People, Lessons, Students

  Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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• By believing that only some of our students will ever develop a love of books and reading, we ignore those who do not fall into books and reading on their own. We renege on our responsibility to teach students how to become self-actualized readers. We are selling our students short by believing that reading is a talent and that lifelong reading behaviors cannot be taught.

  Donalyn Miller

  Believe, Book, Fall

  Donalyn Miller (2013). “Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits”, p.21, John Wiley & Sons

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• I'm away so much I've had to learn to cook, and I find it relaxing after filming. I make stews and liver and bacon, and an Italian mate taught me how to make a mean puttanesca sauce.

  Ray Winstone

  Mean, Italian, Sauce

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• All I knew growing up was that my father was married to and loved my momma, period. He worked hard, made some money, and put it on the dresser. She spent it on the family, and he went out and earned some more. He taught me the most about love.

  Steve Harvey

  Growing Up, Father, Married

  "Steve at Ease". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. April 19, 2012.

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• As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the moments that really matter with family, friends, and community. I now recognize how her strength helped shape the person I am today and the mother that I have become.

  Andie MacDowell

  Mother, Strong, Community

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• Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Loss, Appetite For Life, Despair

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and its something that carries with me to this day.

  Michelle Dockery

  Preparation, Training, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.

  Michelle Dockery

  Sides, Mum

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Grief, Reality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, Mind, Sorrow

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.151

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• We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Fall, Errors

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.27

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• Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

  Alexander Pope

  Heaven, Spires

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.243

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• I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. Theyve taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.

  Josie Loren

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

  Keith Coogan

  Mother, Eye, Voice

  "EXCLUSIVE: Keith Coogan Talks The Fox and the Hound 30th Anniversary Blu-ray". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 15, 2011.

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• I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Character, Thinking, Theatre

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.

  Q-Tip

  Expectations, Music Industry, Manage

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• I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

  Judah Friedlander

  School, Self, Film

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• I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.

  Cathy Moriarty

  Past, Years, Advice

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