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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  Walt Whitman

  Passages

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

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• The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

  Loretta Devine

  Life Lesson, Important, Facts

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• I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they in turn were my life lessons.

  Drew Barrymore

  Mistake, Life Lesson, Past

  "Drew Barrymore: People should shut up about my wild past, I’m proud of it". London Evening Standard Interview, www.standard.co.uk. August 24, 2010.

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• We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds - the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.

  Caroline Myss

  Wise, Block, Moving

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• For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Life Lesson, Blessing, Boredom

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• I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.

  Rube Goldberg

  Friday, Art, Real

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• Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

  Shawn Johnson

  Life Lesson, Responsibility, Gymnastics

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• If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

  Jose Marti

  Life Lesson, Bread Of Life, Doors

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  Mandy Moore

  Life Lesson, Personal Life

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• I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Life Lesson, Men

  Anna Quindlen (2003). “Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue”

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• When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.

  Lech Walesa

  Life Lesson, Lying, Hatred

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• One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prison

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.80, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

  Lalu Prasad Yadav

  Life, Mother, Horny

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• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Leadership, Motivation

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• We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

  John Hope Franklin

  Country, Truth, Life Lesson

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• Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Courage, Powerful

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• Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Today, Architecture, Relevant

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• It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

  James Coburn

  Jobs, Desire, Acting

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

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• The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.

  Oded Fehr

  Life Lesson, Responsibility, Army

  SomethingJewish Network Interview, www.somethingjewish.co.uk. December 1, 2001.

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• The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields. they laughed all the time.

  Andrew Shue

  Sports, Fun, Life Lesson

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• I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

  Joe Mantegna

  Life Lesson, Mean, Trying

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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• Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

  Wallace Stegner

  Broken Heart, Encouragement, Inspirational Life

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.21, Penguin

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• Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

  Dar Williams

  Education, Life Lesson, Giving

  Song: The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co, Album: Mortal City

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• Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

  Brett Favre

  Life Lesson, People, Genocide

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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