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• The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

  Seneca the Younger

  Long, Mind, Doe

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• to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap

  Alain de Botton

  Believe, Mean, Light

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.121, Penguin UK

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• You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.

  Jane Elliott

  Fear, Power, People

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• Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?

  Charles Lamb

  Art, Science, World

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1850). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.292

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• The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

  Willa Cather

  Writing, Accomplishment, Novelists

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.40, U of Nebraska Press

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• Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

  John Herschel

  Knowledge, Science, Students

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1869). “Outlines of Astronomy”, p.17

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• Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Prejudice, Exclusion

  "Interim report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred Maurice de Zayas". August 09, 2012.

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• It takes six years to make a golfer: three to learn the game, then another three to unlearn all you have learned in the first three years. You might be a golfer when you arrive at that stage, but more likely you are just starting.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Years, Games

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• Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn.

  Aristotle

  Men, Able, Constitution

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.123, Aristotle

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• Once you know what's in your food you can't unlearn it.

  Vani Hari

  Knows

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• The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Wisdom, Freedom

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

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• The painter has to unlearn the habit of thinking that things seem to have the color which common sense says they 'really' have, and to learn the habit of seeing things as they appear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Color, Common Sense

  Bertrand Russell (1959). “The problems of philosophy”

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• Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Girl, Lucky, Looks

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

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• Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Taken, Son, Charity

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Style, Strange

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

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• Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Views, May

  Alexander Pope (1736). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.134

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• Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfriendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Kindness, Compassion, Practice

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Ice Cream, Chocolate, May

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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• Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.

  Jim Gaffigan

  School, Holiday, Kids

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.222, Crown Archetype

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• The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

  Antisthenes

  Learning, Evil

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• I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing things in that world that's a little hard to unlearn.

  Steve Dildarian

  Party, World, Littles

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn.

  Edward Boches

  Agency, Ads, Traditional

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• All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Novelists, Unanswered Questions, Answers

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that was supposed to pay my tuition, and I used it to make a film. For the longest time, I never actually graduated. And about 70 percent of the things I learned there I had to unlearn, but 30 percent was really valuable. It's like Mark Twain said, "Don't let school get in the way of your education."

  Jim Jarmusch

  School, Nyu, Degrees

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Jobs, Needs, Stuff

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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