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• You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Moving, Learning, Heart

  Newsweek, May 26, 1980.

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• The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

  Milan Kundera

  Attitude, Tolerance, World

  "Siraaj: An Arab Tale". Book by Radwa Ashour, 2007.

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• I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

  Shia LaBeouf

  School, Yale, Normal

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• My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

  James Lafferty

  Mean, Practice, Want Something

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• When I cook with my son, I might chop vegetables and have fun with different shapes. Cooking is a way to teach kids about other things, like reading or math with all of the weights and measures. There are so many things that are part of cooking that are also very educational.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Fun, Educational, Reading

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• I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Son, Fire, Hands

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  Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Sex, Men, Age

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• In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

  Christopher Lasch

  Drug, Needs, Want

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Decision, 50th Birthday

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Literature, Serious

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.219, Vintage

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• We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

  Robert E. Lee

  Fall, Energy, Defeat

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.545, Madison & Adams

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• I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

  Doris Lessing

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Writing

  "Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life's Puzzles". Interview with Herbert Mitgang, archive.nytimes.com. April 22, 1984.

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• The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

  Jerry Lewis

  Dream, Men, Stuff

  "Jerry Lewis, the Essence of Comedy" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. August 21, 2017.

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• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  Walter Lippmann

  Age, Taught, Insight

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

  John Locke

  Teacher, Teaching, Easier

  John Locke (1693). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education”, p.64

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• It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

  Audre Lorde

  Sex, Race, Long

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Teacher, Nature

  "The Use of Life" by John Lubbock, (Ch. IV), 1894.

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• If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

  Martin Luther

  People, Risk, Missionary

  Martin Luther (2011). “Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing”, p.18, Anchor

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• If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Fighting, Soul, Littles

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• Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Nature, Teaching, Ambition

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• Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.

  Holly Madison

  Summer, Growing Up, Fun

  "Interview: Oregon's own reality star Holly Madison talks about 'Dancing'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. March 20, 2009.

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• Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Intelligent, Suffering

  "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

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• It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.

  Barry Mann

  Song, Writing, Creative

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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