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• Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

  Neil Peart

  Future, Past, Long Ago

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• Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.

  Clayton Christensen

  Children, Mean, Men

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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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• With Midway as the turning point, the fortunes of war appeared definitely to shift from our own to the Allied side. The defeat taught us many lessons and impelled our Navy, for the first time since the outbreak of war, to indulge in critical self-examination.

  Mitsuo Fuchida

  War, Self, Taught Us

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• The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it’s what I now expect for myself.

  Karyn White

  Mind, Possibility, Given

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• World War II proved a hypothesis that Alexis de Tocqueville advanced a century before: the war-fighting potential of a democracy is at its greatest when war is most intense; at its weakest when war is most limited. This is a lesson with enduring relevance to our own times - and our own wars.

  David Frum

  War, Fighting, History

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• We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.

  Alexander Jablokov

  Entrepreneur

  Alexander Jablokov (1994). “The Breath of Suspension”, Arkham House Pub

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• One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

  David Halberstam

  Jobs, Conventional

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• Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value, and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs. Many people today resent the suggestion that they’re in charge of the way they feel.Those people are mistaken. That was a big lesson and I learned it several hundred times before it stuck. What you do, who you’re with, and how you feel about the world around you, is completely up to you.

  Mike Rowe

  Jobs, Knowing, People

  "The 'big lesson' Mike Rowe learned several hundred times" by Mike Rowe, www.cnn.com. October 18, 2014.

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• Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

  Henry Timrod

  Dream, Heart, Secret

  Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

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• People do amazing things for love. Books are full of wonderful stories about this kind of stuff, and stories aren’t just fantasies, you know. They’re so much a part of the people who write them that they practically teach their readers invaluable lessons about life.

  Mahbod Seraji

  Book, Writing, People

  Mahbod Seraji (2009). “Rooftops of Tehran: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• I treat winning and losing exactly the same. I see them both as necessary steps to get us where we are going. Big failures big lessons little failures little lessons.

  Bob Proctor

  Winning, Littles, Steps

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Apr 07, 2017

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• Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

  William Howard Taft

  Art, Views, Mind

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• Personal credibility has everything to do with how others perceive us and how we perceive ourselves. Sandy Allgeier’s book teaches the all-important truth that it doesn’t matter how much money, status, or power you have if nobody believes in you. Every parent should read The Personal Credibility Factor and instill its lessons in their kids.Achieving a full understanding of these principles is the first step in becoming a truly great human being.

  Michele Borba

  Believe, Book, Kids

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• The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac represents the twelve lessons of human existence, the 12 qualities to be developed in the formation of the perfect man (and woman).

  Vera Stanley Alder

  Men, Zodiac, Perfect

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• Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Taken, Gun, Law

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• I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

  Megan Fox

  Life Lesson, School, Thinking

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 13, 2008.

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• People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

  Jerry Gillies

  Mistake, Believe, Moving

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• The most powerful lesson you can learn in running? You're capable of much more than you think.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

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• I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Dying, Comfort, Faces

  Alison Hawthorne Deming (1994). “Temporary Homelands”

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• The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Past, Pet

  Susan Orlean (2012). “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and Legend of the World's Most Famous Dog”, p.235, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Past, Entrepreneur, Special

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound.

  Markus Ruhl

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, Simple

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• They have no power over you. It's all a show, a deception. Your urges scream and bluster at you; they cajole; they coax; they threaten; but they really carry no stick at all. You give in out of habit. You give in because you never really bother to look beyond the threat. It is all empty back there. There is only one way to learn this lesson, though. The words on this page won't do it.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Discipline, Giving, Over You

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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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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