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  I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Leadership, Education, Knowledge

  Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" (1902)

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• In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Eye, Ignorant

  William Shakespeare (1796*). “The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems”, p.142

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• There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Old Things, Investing

  “FBI revisiting Clinton emails just latest in long history of 'October Surprises“ by Chad Pergram, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2016.

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• It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Encouraging

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• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Humorous, Wings

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• Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teaching, Faculty, Learning Experience

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.354, Crux Publishing Ltd

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Education, Children, Life Lesson

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.21, Beacon Press

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• I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Marriage, Spiritual, Wedding Anniversary

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• When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Time, Stars, Tired

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition”, p.42, New York Review of Books

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

  Rene Daumal

  Art, Memories, Climbing

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• A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Business, Moving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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• He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Inspirational, Years, Twenties

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1111, Penguin

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• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Wisdom, Time

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Inspirational, Fighting, Boys

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• Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Math, Shoes, House

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Long, Live And Learn

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

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• I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Hate, Rap

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2514, Delphi Classics

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• As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed as ignorant as you were at twenty-two, you'd always be twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it.

  Mitch Albom

  Life, Positive, Two

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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• All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

  Megan McCafferty

  Country, Attitude, Scary

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.61, Crown

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• We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

  Marcel Proust

  Fear, Essence, Tree

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Love Yourself

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

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• The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Giving Up, Pain

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

  Alan Watts

  Education, Buddhism, Everyday

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• If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Party, Passion, Eye

  In Thomas Allsop 'Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge' (18 December 1831)

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