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• This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Bad Day, Years, Forever

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• Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.

  Angelina Jolie

  Life, Children, Learning

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• An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.

  Will Durant

  Men, Play, Skills

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1954). “The story of civilization”

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• Many times I've called for Marius, but there was no answer. Just the endless procession of days, months, years... My teacher left me to my darkest lesson, that in the end, we are alone, and there is nothing but the cold, dark wasteland of eternity.

  Stuart Townsend

  Teacher, Dark, Years

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• Both of my marriages have taught me the same lesson twice over really harsh: listen to your instincts. Don't be a people pleaser.

  Drew Barrymore

  Marriage, People, Taught

  "Drew Barrymore: The Latest Drew Stories". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. April 1, 2003.

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• Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Expression, Voice

  "Self-Reliance". Essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841.

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• I know the exact date that I began writing Twilight, because it was also the first day of swim lessons for my kids. So I can say with certainty that it all started on June 2, 2003.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Writing, Kids

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• This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Self

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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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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• After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household.

  Georg Solti

  Mother, Intelligent, Six Months

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.

  Zoey Deutch

  Pain, School, Unhappy

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• In his final remarks to the White House staff, on the day he resigned his office, Nixon applied a version of the lesson to himself. “Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Hate, Winning, White

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.

  Merrill Markoe

  Dog, Kids, Grandpa

  Merrill Markoe (2006). “Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel”, p.208, Villard

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• Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.

  Biz Stone

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fall

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• Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

  Aaron Levie

  Uber, Doe, World

  Twitter post from Aug 23, 2013

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• He who takes whatever God sends with smile has learned lifes hardest lesson.

  Roland Winters

  Hardest

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• But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.

  Erik Brynjolfsson

  Team, Race, People

  Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee (2012). “Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy”, p.59, Brynjolfsson and McAfee

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• I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Book, Reading

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• Most people/musicians hear things differently and what might please one might not please another. One man's meat is another man's poison. Don't be afraid to dig, the most important people/musicians in my life always have. If you do decide to dig, don't always expect to come up with a clean face. It's o.k. The most important lessons to me have been learned by trial and error. All I'm trying to say is "try to find yourself," as I have.

  Allan Holdsworth

  Men, Errors, People

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• Talking with other parents really gave me some lessons that I try to hold on to now, as a parent of two boys.

  Joe Lando

  Boys, Talking, Two

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• I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

  Colin Greenwood

  Piano, Next, Piano Lesson

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.

  LZ Granderson

  Sports, Believe, Athlete

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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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• A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Simple, Men, Care

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• What leader has no lessons to learn from his followers?

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Leader, Followers

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