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• Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Artist, Clothes, Kind

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• I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.

  William Allen White

  Two, People, Giving

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• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  1895 Mrs Cheveley speaking. An Ideal Husband, act 3.

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• Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

  Juan Williams

  Slavery, Defeat, Standing

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• I'm trying to teach my daughter about healthy eating.

  Carnie Wilson

  Daughter, Mother, Healthy

  "Carnie Wilson: "It's Dawning On Me That My Health Has To Come First"". Interview with Jenny Schafer, www.celebritybabyscoop.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Cute, Children, Skills

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed". www.slate.com. May 04, 2012.

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• I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

  Walter Winchell

  Life, Success, Believe

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• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  Naomi Wolf

  Kids, Thinking, Resilience

  "This pampered private school elite can only lead to US decline" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

  Tobias Wolff

  Teaching, Writing, People

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• We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Overcoming, Finals, Segregation

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.101, Book Tree

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• One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Educational, Men

  1798 'The Tables Turned', stanzas 6-8.

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• My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

  John Wozniak

  Mother, Taught, Guides

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• Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

  Mao Zedong

  Inspirational, Mass

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• I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Life, Soccer, Football

  "ZZ top" by Andrew Hussey, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2004.

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• When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.

  Zig Ziglar

  Invited, Salesman

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• Often as we teach and testify about the law of tithing, we emphasize the immediate, dramatic and readily recognizable temporal blessings that we receive. And surely such blessings do occur. Yet some of the diverse blessings we obtain as we are obedient to this commandment are significant but subtle.

  David A. Bednar

  Blessing, Law, Dramatic

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• Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.

  David A. Bednar

  Hands, Soul, Important

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• It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

  Frans de Waal

  Cat, Animal, Two

  "Elephants Trump Magic Goldfish" by Frans de Waal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, People, Enemy

  "The Family". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. October 1998.

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• Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

  Greg Graffin

  Important, World, This Life

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• I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

  Helen McCrory

  Thinking, Change Is Good, Frightened

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

  Mae West

  Love, Funny, Sarcastic

  Mae West (1959). “Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography”, Chelsea House

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• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.401, Courier Corporation

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• I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye." "If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she. "And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me." "But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstrously?" "Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing, For I dearly love a good harp," said she.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Kings, Play, Soldier

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The last unicorn”

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