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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  Ed Miliband

  School, Years, Shining

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Prayer, Believe, Giving

  J. M. G. Le Clézio (1993). “The Mexican Dream: Or, The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations”, p.111, University of Chicago Press

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• I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Sacrifice, Taught Us, Matter

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• ... In a free society, skeptics are the watchdogs against irrationalism - the consumer advocates of ideas. Debunking is not simply the divestment of bunk; its utility is in offering a better alternative, along with a lesson on how thinking goes wrong.

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Offering, Ideas

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• You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and they talk away. There's nothing I can do. And that's one of the great lessons I try to convey in my book, which my mother implanted in me as a young girl.. Is you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Girl, Mother

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• The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say, 'Why not?'; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.

  Anita Dunn

  Mother, Simple, Two

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• There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Important, Ruins, States

  "Collections of the New-York Historical Society" by I. Riley, 1821.

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• We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential.

  Vinod Khosla

  Thinking, Trends, Humans

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• You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

  Vinod Khosla

  Dream, Degrees, Needs

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• If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

  Vinod Khosla

  School, Math, Doctors

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• If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.

  Vinod Khosla

  Scratches, Healthcare, Ifs

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• One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.

  Vinod Khosla

  Data, Best Things, Knows

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• Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldnt consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

  Mary Lou Williams

  Love, Play, House

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• Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

  Annie Jump Cannon

  Teaching, Men, Unity

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• As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.

  Satoru Iwata

  Successful, Trying, Wii

  "Wii U In "Final Form" At E3 2012" by Richard George, www.ign.com. October 27, 2011.

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• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Views, Looks

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.

  Brian Clough

  Team, Games, White

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• I was your typical struggling actress. I went to every audition, took a million acting, dancing and singing lessons and spent years wondering where my next meal was coming from.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Struggle, Years, Dancing

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

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• Liebig taught the world two great lessons. The first was that in order to teach chemistry it was necessary that students should be taken into a laboratory. The second lesson was that he who is to apply scientific thought and method to industrial problems must have a thorough knowledge of the sciences. The world learned the first lesson more readily than it learned the second.

  Ira Remsen

  Taken, Science, Order

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• ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

  Donald Knuth

  Book, Writing, Learning

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• I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

  Todd Bennett

  Thinking, Design, Important

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• We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, War, Words Of Wisdom

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• Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.

  Jerry I. Porras

  Success, Adversity, Two

  Jerry I. Porras, Stewart Emery, Mark Thompson (2006). “Success Built to Last: Creating a Life That Matters”, p.8, Pearson Education

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• To love someone whom you like is insignificant.
  To love someone because they love you is of no consequence.
  To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life.
  To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Love, Art, Life Lesson

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• When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sweet

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