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• I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Believe, People, Confusion

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.25, Best Books on

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• There was a f**king review in f**king Melody Maker [of the first BOSSANOVA single, 'Velouria'] - 'Sounds like someone's been taking singing lessons'. Like, motherf**king A! I am the singer. Who do sing SONGS. It's like I never sang before; like I was - I don't know - reading PROSE on my previous records and now I sing. EXCUUUUUUSE me for singing

  Black Francis

  Song, Kings, Reading

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• The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

  Gary Player

  Player, Practice, Honest

  Gary Player (1962). “Golf Secrets”

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• It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Army, Needs, Moments

  "“Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder". Book by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 31, 1920.

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• The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Pain, Suffering, Trying

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• Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole of French, Latin, and English grammars to memory.

  John Muir

  Memories, Latin, English Grammar

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.29, The Mountaineers Books

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• Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Motivational, Hippie, Journey

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• It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.

  Belva Plain

  Women, Plans, Unwise

  Belva Plain (2011). “Fortune's Hand”, p.159, Dell

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• One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

  Joe Rogan

  Struggle, Mma, Life Is

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 20, 2014.

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• One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Years, Mma, Progress

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• Western civilization has not yet learned the lesson that the energy we expend in 'getting things done' is less important than the moral strength it takes to decide what is worth doing and what is right to do.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Civilization, Priorities, Important

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Another observation, in a former letter of yours, has not escaped my remembrance – the three lessons which a minister has to learn: 1. Humility. 2. Humility. 3. Humility. How long are we learning the true nature of Christianity!

  Charles Simeon

  Humility, Long, Remembrance

  Charles Simeon (1848). “Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon, Late Senior Fellow of King's College and Minister of Trinity Church, Cambridge: With a Selection from His Writings and Correspondence”, p.60

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• Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

  Walter Bargen

  Survival, Perseverence, Tribute

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Men, Animal

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.

  Paul Begala

  War, Fighting, Important

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• I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

  Donald Fagen

  Kids, Years, Play

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• As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts an end to conversation; forgiveness becomes the stuff of moralistic tracts. Revenge - bloodthirsty, justice-hungry revenge - is the very essence of romance, lying at the heart of much of the best fiction.

  Alberto Manguel

  Revenge, Lying, Heart

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Epic, Journey, Confusion

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead. GENNITA LOW, Facing Fear To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

  Ouida

  Vices, New Life, Pages

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• Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

  Winston Churchill

  History, Mankind

  Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

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• In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

  Robert Musil

  Lying, Intellectual, Analogies

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.42, University of Chicago Press

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• Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to believe in the eternity of any creed or form at all. Whatever grows in time is a child of time, and is born and lives, and dies at its appointed day like ourselves.

  James Anthony Froude

  Children, Believe, Heart

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.33

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• I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Believe, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I've learned my lesson over the years about what to say and what not to say in interviews, that's for sure.

  Michael Madsen

  Years, Interviews, I've Learned

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I taught myself to read music at a very young age, so when I started to take lessons in school, the teachers used to give me other instruments to keep me busy, because I was more advanced than the other kids.

  Stefon Harris

  Teacher, School, Kids

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