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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Homer

Depression, Teaching, Names

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The most significant learning occurs when emotions are integrated with instruction because all body systems are united. The Arts are strongly linked to emotions, enhancing the likelihood that students will remember something.

Eric Jensen

Art, Remember Something, Body

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You can spend a lot of money on education, but if you don’t spend it wisely, on improving the quality of instruction, you won’t get higher student outcomes.

Andreas Schleicher

Quality, Getting High, Outcomes

"U.S. Is Urged to Raise Teachers’ Status" by Sam Dillon, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2011.

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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Education, Learning, Knowledge

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And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.

Samuel Adams

Country, Mean, Law

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If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

Stonewall Jackson

Marine Corps, Desire, Battle

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Fundamental modes of speech, the bulk of the vocabulary, are formed in the ordinary intercourse of life, carried on not as a set means of instruction but as a social necessity.

John Dewey

Mean, Vocabulary, Ordinary

John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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Without thinking, [Will] spoke. 'Halt? Are you awake?' 'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. 'Oh. Sorry.' 'Shut up.' He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent.

John Flanagan

Sorry, Thinking, Apologizing

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Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Soul, May, Accepting

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.79, Penguin

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As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Leonard Cohen

Voice, Done, Dignity

How I Got My Song Address at the Prince Asturias Awards, delivered 21 October 2011

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As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.

Jonathan Kozol

New York, School, Cities

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Russian Parliament today is a bunch of puppets that just fall in with the instructions from Kremlin.

Garry Kasparov

Fall, Puppets, Today

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We follow instructions to my destination, a chamber for my preparation.

Suzanne Collins

Preparation, Destination, Chamber

Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.139, Scholastic Inc.

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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dream, Depressing, People

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.31, Publishdrive

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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.

James Dean

Inspirational, Motivational, Following Instructions

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.

Ingrid Bergman

Thinking, Voice, Air

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...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society

John Stuart Mill

Children, Mind, Training

John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.233, Hackett Publishing

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What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

Richard Dawkins

Lying, Heart, Technology

Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly

Nalini Singh

Butterfly, Littles, Galen

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What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct

J. I. Packer

Children, Attitude, Teaching

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When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.

Barry Blitt

Unique, Expression, Cartoon

"Cartoonist Takes On the Sketchiest President Yet". Interview With Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. April 2, 2017.

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Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Lying, Games, Play

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I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Ingrid Betancourt

Laughter, Humanity, Survival

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Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.

Janet Evanovich

Men, Car, Burgers

Janet Evanovich (2009). “Lean Mean Thirteen”, p.135, Macmillan

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Rule 1: When all else fails, follow instructions. And Rule 2: Don't be an asshole.

Anne Lamott

Failing, When All Else Fails

Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.75, Penguin

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