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• So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Doctors, Practice

  Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.8, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

  Alexander Pope

  Maids, Letters, Firsts

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.26

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• Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

  John Milton

  Too Much, Drink, Temperance

  John Milton (2003). “The Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.445, Hackett Publishing

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• Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Woe, Fellowship, Self Pity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author”, p.18

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• Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

  Agnes Repplier

  Teacher, Too Much, Spirit

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Education, Past, Museums

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• My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever.

  Jeff Bezos

  Teamwork, Clever, Grandfather

  "Jeff Bezos: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 2002.

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• When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in a book. Like, they didn't know what the inside of a book looked like, you know what I mean?

  David Sedaris

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Appreciation, Passion, Creative

  Lewis Grizzard (1991). “Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine”

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• If we taught music the way we try to teach engineering, in an unbroken four year course, we could end up with all theory and no music. When we study music, we start to practice from the beginning, and we practice for the entire time.

  Charles Kettering

  Teaching, Engineering, Years

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• O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Years, Land, Giving

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• I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Art, Teaching, Firsts

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• I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.

  Gustave Courbet

  Education, Art, Inspiration

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• Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Color, Law, Drawing

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• May we incorporate into our own lives the divine principles which he Joseph Smith so beautifully taught by example, that we, ourselves, might live more completely the gospel of Jesus Christ. . . May our lives reflect the knowledge we have that God lives, that Jesus Christ is His son, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we are led today by another prophet of God - even President Gordon B. Hinckley.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Son, Gordon B Hinckley

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• I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Father, Writing, Mad

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• Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Jesus, Simple

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• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  Savitri Devi

  Real, Humble, Sight

  Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• I want to thank my daughter, who told me, 'If you don't win, Dad, you're still good,' ... who taught me how to act.

  Jamie Foxx

  Daughter, Dad, Winning

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• It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Mean, Rich

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• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Ideas, Majority

  Leonard Peikoff (1983). “Ominous Parallels”, p.179, Penguin

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• All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Crazy, Self

  "The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos : A Renaissance of Romanticism in Modernity" by Pietros Maneos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

  Diane Ravitch

  Civilization, Students, Should

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• Blessed, blessed is the Knower of the Lord, my True Guru, He has taught me to look upon friend and foe alike.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Blessed, Looks, Lord

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