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• It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Gratitude, Evil, Compensation

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• No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Freedom, Learning, Army

  "Babylon 5". www.imdb.com. 1994–1998.

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• Maybe tomorrow is counting on me
  To learn my lessons today
  I'll start by taking a step at a time
  And stop throwing my blessings away
  I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off
  And take back some of the pride that I've lost
  'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground
  I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down

  Bekka Bramlett

  Song, Fall, Pride

  Song: We All Fall Down

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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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• I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.

  Denton Cooley

  Disappointment, Failure, Science

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.

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• This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

  John McEnroe

  Tennis, Taught, Defeat

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• It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

  Pat Cash

  Opportunity, Cities, Giving

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• Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

  Tom Lehrer

  Prayer, Mean, Nineteen

  Song: Mlf Lullaby, Album: That Was the Year That Was

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• Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

  Bob Hope

  Ambition, People, Dancing

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• Remember, there are no real failures in life, only results. There are no true tragedies, only lessons. And there are no problems, only opportunities waiting to be recognized as solutions by the person of wisdom.

  Robin Sharma

  Real, Opportunity, Waiting

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Who Will Cry When You Die?: Life Lessons From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Funny, Water, Want

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• Every happening is a lesson, a message.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Messages, Happenings

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• We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Chess, Should, Companion

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.235, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world.

  William Bagley

  Real, School, Skills

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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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• There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life Lesson, Pay The Price, Skills

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• The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

  James Risen

  Army, Dating, Mind

  James Risen (2014). “Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. [But you must know enough to realise this, lest you focus more on the defeat than finding the lesson you paid for with the defeat. With every defeat and mistake, you have the logical right to get excited about the future when you will understand and be able to apply the lessons and thereby turn defeat and temporary failure into victory and permanent success.]

  Robert Collier

  Mistake, Lying, Adversity

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• Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taken, Silence

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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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• We are all so bent and determined to get what we want, we miss the lessons that could be learned from life's experiences. Many of my AIDS patients discovered that the last year of their lives was by far their best. Many have said they wouldn't have traded the rich quality of that last year of life for a healthier body. Sadly, it is only when tragedy strikes that most of us begin attending to the deeper aspects of life. It is only then that we attempt to go beyond surface concerns-what we look like, how much money we make, and so forth-to discover what's really important.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Years, Perspective, Missing

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