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• I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is
  needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Believe, Punishment, Long

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.86, Open Road Media

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• All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on
  our own, just as with life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Would Be, Valuable, Poetry Is

  Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter, November 26, 1825.

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• God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

  Susan Crandall

  Jobs, Giving, Soul

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• The lectures you deliver
  may be wise and true,
  But I'd rather get my lessons
  by observing what you do.
  I may not understand
  the high advise you like to give,
  But there's no misunderstanding
  how you act and how you live.

  Edgar Guest

  Wise, Giving, May

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.

  Charlie Munger

  Regret, Taken, Past

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• This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

  Eric Ries

  Important, Scientific Method, Failing

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.56, Crown Business

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• New York lesson 1 - never look lost. Lesson 2 - forget hallowed silences. It's the right of all Americans to talk at the tops of their voices.

  Alison Fell

  New York, Voice, Silence

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• 'The Devil in the Dark' impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fear, Dark, Ideas

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• I didn't understand at the time why Vince was so interested in teaching me life lessons when all I was trying to do was get my video played. But now I think it's because he saw a little bit of himself in me. Just like me, he was a rebel who listened to no one and did whatever it took to get the job done, pissing people off with his stubbornness and drive in the process. Therefore, he was trying to teach me how to better myself instead of repeatedly getting into trouble by rubbing people the wrong way.

  Chris Jericho

  Jobs, Life Lesson, Teaching

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• One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

  Ann Richards

  Mistake, Valuable, Valuable Lessons

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• The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

  Jon Taffer

  Focus, Dollars, Dimes

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2016

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• To me, my grandfather’s urgency to preach the Gospel one more time to a lost and dying world is the definition of 'finishing well,' and it’s such a blessing and lesson.

  Will Graham

  Blessing, Grandfather, Dying

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• There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so youre kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When youre young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

  Victoria Azarenka

  Ambitious, Mountain, Pieces

  "Coffee break with Victoria Azarenka". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. August 28, 2012.

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• When I studied graphic design, I learned a valuable lesson: There's no perfect answer to the puzzle, and creativity is a renewable resource.

  Biz Stone

  Creativity, Perfect, Design

  "Master of 'Biz' Returns to School" by Melissa Korn and Amir Efrati, The wall Street Journal, September 1, 2011.

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• There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.

  Idries Shah

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Idries Shah (2017). “A Perfumed Scorpion”, p.11, ISF Publishing

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• I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Mother, Book, Character

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• Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

  George Eliot

  Life, Real, Too Late

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

  Ruth Kelly

  Journey, Optimism, I've Learned

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• The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Life Lesson, Humble

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.226, Rajpal & Sons

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• Nothing that occurs in life is random or without purpose. Lessons were found within each event in our lives that, positive or negative, ultimately instilled a peaceful mind in us.

  Michelle Cruz

  Peaceful, Mind, Events

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• This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

  Sarah Manguso

  Suffering, Important, Attention

  Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta

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• The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Creativity, Past

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• Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

  Jan Hellriegel

  Life Lesson, Ignorant, Want

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• We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

  Penelope Keith

  School, Appreciate, Sound

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• The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another:
  teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

  Rocky Bleier

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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