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• The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound.

  Markus Ruhl

  Exercise, Bodybuilding, Simple

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• Remember, life is for living and learning. So listen to your life and the lessons it offers. What choices must you make this day to help you move forward? Make your list of the things you can do right now to create what you want and begin to do the work. You can say yes to happiness, wholeness, and prosperity. You can live fully and creatively. You can claim your power to choose. Why not claim it now?

  Susan L. Taylor

  Life, Moving, Choices

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.71, Anchor

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• All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Pain, Struggle, Healing

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• As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

  Jessica Zafra

  Mistake, Long, Matter

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

  Robert McNamara

  War, Age, Trying

  Robert S. McNamara (2004). “Official Teacher's Guide for The Fog of War: An Errol Morris Film”

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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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• To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

  Joe Biden

  Moving On, Wise, Art

  Joe Biden (2007). “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics”, p.22, Random House

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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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• Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

  William Howard Taft

  Art, Views, Mind

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• When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Inspiration, Practice

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• The most important lesson that were supposed to be learning right now is how completely lost we are without God. If we don't learn this lesson, then our lives are going to have zero meaning. (Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality)

  Brian Welch

  Jesus, Zero, Important

  Brian Welch (2010). “Stronger: Forty Days of Metal and Spirituality”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout human history. To ignore context is the greatest source of catastrophe for every generation of man, and it continutes on in the present time with the same catastrophic consequences. There is no greater lesson that needs to be learned to reduce human suffering and bring ignorance to an end.

  David Hawkins

  Truth, Ignorance, Men

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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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• And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

  Steve Case

  Games, Video, Machines

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• For me and Michelle, this visit has therefore held special meaning. Throughout my life, including my work as a young man on behalf of the urban poor, I have always found inspiration in the life of Gandhiji and in his simple and profound lesson to be the change we seek in the world. And just as he summoned Indians to seek their destiny, he influenced champions of equality in my own country, including a young Martin Luther King

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Country, Kings

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• Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Religion, Looks, Spirit

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• The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.

  Joshua Kushner

  Average, Amazon, Score

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• Spreadsheets are fiction. Believing in what you're doing and what you're building is what's important.

  Vinod Khosla

  Believe, Important, Fiction

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• You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way.

  Taylor Swift

  Way, Hard, Learning Lessons

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• I remember loving sound before I ever took a music lesson. And so we make our lives by what we love.

  John Cage

  Sound, Remember, Live By

  John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

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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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• Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

  Richard Branson

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• The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

  Randall L. Stephenson

  Internet, Audience

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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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