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• I was very outgoing, and a good-looking kid. I started doing all the catalogs. I made 60 commercials by the time I was 6. I must have been a natural, because I never took an acting lesson.

  Ricky Schroder

  Kids, Acting, Looking Good

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• We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, People

  "A MAN TRUE TO HIS WORD".

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• In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Thinking, Numbers

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

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• A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.

  Henry Petroski

  Engineering, Generations, Done

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• The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

  Gary Snyder

  Journey, Hiking, Sauntering

  Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison (2010). “The Etiquette of Freedom: Gary Snyder, Jim Harrison, and the Practice of the Wild”, p.13, Counterpoint Press

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• Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

  Kiana Tom

  Wise, Regret, Business

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• Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

  Dweezil Zappa

  Time, Couple, Dad

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• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  Ed Miliband

  Wisdom, Challenges, Progress

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• What I didn't realize was the severity of the crime, so to speak. I think that's important. That's one of the lessons learned here. You move to a new area, you really need to be sure of what the laws and penalties are. You hear those things. You hear, 'Don't speed in Virginia' when you get here, just in casual conversations. What's left out is why you don't speed in Virginia. I learned the hard way, that's for sure.

  Jayson Werth

  Moving, Thinking, Law

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• Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Book, Power, People

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• To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Life Lesson, Struggle, Acceptance

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• Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.

  Alan Redpath

  Christian, Eye, Blessing

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Tony Visconti

  Son, Guitar, Years

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• Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Country, Successful, Years

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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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• Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia on others. The Communist model of society was a kind of imposed utopia for which the Russian people in particular paid a great price. Still, sometimes we see that attempts are being made to impose some other kind of model on the entire world - maybe a Westernized or Americanized model... This is not the way to go because this can only create conflict.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, World, Way

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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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• 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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• Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

  David James

  Dream, Sibling, Life Lesson

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• To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Men, Demand, Faces

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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• When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

  Horace

  Teacher, Teaching, Moral

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• Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Life Changing, Lessons To Be Learned, Ideas

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

  Ruth Kelly

  Journey, Optimism, I've Learned

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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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