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• The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

  George F. Kennan

  People, Generations, Records

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Home, Fire, Painful Experiences

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• I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sleep, Honor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Mom, Mother

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

  Andrea Corr

  Kids, Dancing, Wells

  "Andrea Corr in Dancing at Lughnasa: 'forget everything you've ever heard about me'". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 13, 2009.

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• I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.

  Alison Brie

  Thinking, Needs, Too Late

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

  Glen Hansard

  Believe, People, Earth

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• The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

  Ariel Durant

  Science, Law, Fundamentals

  Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.

  Steve Burns

  Smart, Blue, Clue

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• It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

  Ally Carter

  Real, Believe, Book

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• I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

  Eliza Coupe

  Kids, Play, Piano

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You always learn lessons in business.

  Eli Broad

  Learning Lessons

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• I don't know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I've been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I'm excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

  Freddy Adu

  Vacation, Speak English, Numbers

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• I think the biggest lesson that I take from 'Avatar' on any set that I go to is just work ethic. Working with Jim Cameron, you're used to working very, very long days and you're very meticulous about details. He's very, very picky about little details, little character-isms and things.

  Laz Alonso

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

  Ben Bernanke

  Thinking, Trying, Orthodoxy

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• The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

  David Riesman

  Children, Doctors, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers

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• When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

  Luke Evans

  Jobs, School, Shoes

  "Luke Evans Exclusive Interview TAMARA DREWE; Plus Updates on Tarsem’s IMMORTALS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and VIVALDI". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 7, 2010.

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• There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

  David Gill

  Lessons To Be Learned, Learning Lessons

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• In terms of the idea of long-term occupation - I have been reading a little bit more about this period - and you can see in that occupation are many lessons for the current occupation of Iraq. So we have these connections that go way back that people aren't aware of.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Ideas, Iraq

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. April 20, 2004.

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• That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else; or less.

  Alexis Denisof

  Important, Wanted, Deserving

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

  Robert Breault

  Wise, Dog, Moving

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• My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount.

  Brian Austin Green

  Father, Piano, Years

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• The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn't working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I've seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn't bring myself to terminate it.

  Cindy Gallop

  Mistake, Fire, Long

  "How Cindy Gallop Broke Through the "Thick Layer of Men" and Became the Counterpoint to Porn". Interview with Leslie Bradshaw, www.forbes.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School.

  Jacqueline Emerson

  School, Piano, Four

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