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• They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

  Phil Plait

  Stars, Life Lesson, Shining

  "Death from the Skies!". Book by Phil Plait, 2008.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.

  Paul McEuen

  Origin Of Life, Lessons To Be Learned, Understanding

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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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• Many of the most important and life-changing moments of my life occurred when I was a young man. The lessons I learned then formed my character and shaped my destiny.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Life, Inspiring, Character

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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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• To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

  Joe Biden

  Moving On, Wise, Art

  Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.22, Random House

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• Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Marriage, Ninety Nine, Race

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• As changes take place in my life, I continue to watch them truly work out for my good-if I can just wait on God to see me through. What makes all the difference is trust-the understanding that God has a much bigger plan than mine even if I don't understand it. I'm grateful, yet sorry, that I have had to learn so many lessons by hindsight.

  Kathy Troccoli

  Change, Sorry, Grateful

  Kathy Troccoli (1997). “My Life Is in Your Hands: Devotions to Help You Fall More Deeply in Love With Jesus”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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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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• To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.

  David Hawkins

  Truth, Ignorance, Men

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• The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.

  Amy Van Dyken

  Sports, Failure, Learning

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• How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Winter, Years, Should

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1863). “Out-door Papers”, p.239

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• And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

  Steve Case

  Games, Video, Machines

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• I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Tree

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• The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Keys, Yield

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• If I've learned anything over the past 5 years, it's that you do not know where you're going to be tomorrow. You have to make decisions based on that; it's almost pointless. So, you know, whether I learned, I think I'm pretty aware, pretty conscious of that point to live in the moment. It's a hard lesson, but it's like, I'm trying to learn to quiet my mind down, know what I mean?

  Andrew McMahon

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Important, Fiction

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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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• The love between a mother and her daughter is special. A mother takes her daughter under her wing and teaches her how to be a woman. In order to do this, you have to ask yourself what it means to be a woman of today. How do you balance care for others with your own quest for meaning and joy in life and how do you pass on these lessons to your daughter?

  Laura Ramirez

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

  Taylor Swift

  Way, Hard, Learning Lessons

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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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• ... 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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