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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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• If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

  Vinod Khosla

  School, Math, Doctors

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  Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

  Tupac Shakur

  Life, Mistake, Differences

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• You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they? They just get on those shows, and they talk away. There's nothing I can do. And that's one of the great lessons I try to convey in my book, which my mother implanted in me as a young girl.. Is you can either be an actor in your own life, or a reactor in somebody else's.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Girl, Mother

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• There must be religion. When that ligament is torn, society is disjointed and its members perish... [T]he most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Important, Ruins, States

  "Collections of the New-York Historical Society" by I. Riley, 1821.

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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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• Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

  Annie Jump Cannon

  Teaching, Men, Unity

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• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

  William Wilberforce

  Thinking, Views, Looks

  William Wilberforce (2005). “A Practical View of Preferred Christians”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Bill eventually became Mr Tottenham Hotspur, and produced such a dazzling team at White Hart Lane that they won the double and played the game in a way that was an object lesson to everybody.

  Brian Clough

  Team, Games, White

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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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• I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

  Todd Bennett

  Thinking, Design, Important

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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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• People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

  Richard Branson

  People, Priorities, Purpose

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• I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

  Ed McMahon

  Marine, Two, Important

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• Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless vacillating. If you're afraid to make decisions and act on them in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, get a job. Failure's lessons are essential to success.

  Steve Pavlina

  Jobs, Business, Fire

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• We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.

  Craig Newmark

  Success, Business, Mean

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• Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Humanity

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Wisdom, Nature, Travel

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• The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
  Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
  'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
  And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Stars, Struggle, Fighting

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25

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• "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.78, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• This is a lesson about life: This is one person. This is another person. This is one person trying to understand another person, even though it doesn't have room to download the other person into it's brain. It cannot understand the other person, even though it tries to. So he ends up overflowing with knowledge.

  The Rev

  Brain, Trying, Rooms

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• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  Flavor Flav

  Real, Thinking, Giving

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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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• The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

  Hun Sen

  Past, Legacy, Generations

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• I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

  Skylar Laine

  Taken, Singing, Technique

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