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• One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

  Mary Schmich

  Ukulele, World, Want

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• You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Home, Fire, Painful Experiences

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• Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

  Judith Viorst

  Mother, Father, Hate

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Shapes, Poet

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Complete Poetical Works”, p.217

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• We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

  Jesse Jackson

  Together

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• The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

  Max Lerner

  Survivor, Written

  Max Lerner (1943). “It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy”

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• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• As costs mount, in lives and dollars, it is natural to second guess, but one lesson I hope we have learned is that the U.S. cannot go it alone in a policy that leaves American troops taking all the risk and American taxpayers paying all of the costs.

  John Spratt

  Risk, Troops, Dollars

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• Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Father, Organization, President

  "The Kindle Swindle ?" by Roy Blount, Jr., www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Damage, Firsts, Human Condition

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• My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place!

  Martina Navratilova

  Mother, Memories, Hair

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• Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Father, Years, Two

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• And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Taken, Kids, Guitar

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• The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

  Guy Finley

  Running, Mistake, Life Is

  "Realize the Endless Source of Real Life Within You" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2012.

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• Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

  Jonathan Raban

  Prayer

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.469, Pan Macmillan

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• A setback is never a bad experience, just another one of life’s lessons.

  Richard Branson

  Bad Experiences, Setback

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• The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

  George F. Kennan

  People, Generations, Records

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

  Penelope Keith

  School, Appreciate, Sound

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• Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life Lesson, School, Hair

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• When we take voice lessons from the Master, we learn to speak with tenderness.

  David Jeremiah

  Voice, Speak, Masters

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• The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

  David Jeremiah

  Children, Love Life, Lessons To Be Learned

  David Jeremiah (2013). “Hopeful Parenting: Encouragement for Raising Kids Who Love God”, p.43, David C Cook

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• I honor the wisdom of life. I learn from life in all its forms. The tree teaches me. The sparrow and the wren sing my song. I am open to the lessons Life brings me from the earth. I learn from the wind, from the sun, from the small flowers, and from the stars. I walk without arrogance. I learn from all I encounter. I open my mind and heart to the guidance and love that come to me from the natural world.

  Julia Cameron

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Julia Cameron (1997). “Heart Steps”, p.19, Penguin

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• Wants and needs are closely connected. And all our needs, even the ones we're not completely aware of yet, will be met. Be grateful that God knows more about what we need than we do. Sometimes when we pray, we get what we want. Sometimes we get what we need. Accept both answers-the yes's and the something else's-with heartfelt gratitude. Then look around and see what your lesson and gift is.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Prayer, Grateful

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• Here was my first lesson on the resolutely maintained untidiness and ill-health of the English upper orders. In baggy evening dress and old before their time, they displayed gapped and tangled teeth in loosely open mouths. Gently shedding dandruff, they lurched across the lawn. When they stood at the bar they looked like Lee Trevino Putting.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Order

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.256, Pan Macmillan

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• One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Keys

  Dave Barry (1997). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”

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