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• [About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

  Hannah Arendt

  Taught Us, Long, Evil

  Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil ch. 15 (1963)

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• You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Fate, Murder Mysteries, Psychics

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• Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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• The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.

  Derek Sivers

  Important, Important Lessons

  "Brave Interview Series: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.forbes.com. July 1, 2015.

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• I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.

  Creed Bratton

  Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One big lesson I learned from movie [making] was I don't do creative projects that I headline unless I have all the control. I can't deal with having to live with other people's screw ups, and that's just sort of the way the movie business works. The people with the money are in charge. Until I'm in charge, I don't want to play that game.

  Tucker Max

  Games, Play, People

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• As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

  Jennie Finch

  Jesus, Life Lesson, Athlete

  Interview with Gary Leland, fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.

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• Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

  Peter McWilliams

  Laughter, Adversity, Joy

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

  George Sand

  Experience, Too Late, Late

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

  Theodore Parker

  Religious, Nature, Book

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.88

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• It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith in the efficacy of mechanic's institutes, or even of primary and elementary schools, for building up a virtuous and well conditioned peasantry, so long as they stand dissevered from the lessons of Christian piety.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Christian, Education, School

  Thomas Chalmers (1833). “On Political Economy: In Connexion with the Moral State and Moral Prospects of Society”, p.342

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• though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

  Edith Hamilton

  Life Changing, Book, Littles

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Fall, Taken, Men

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• Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

  Helen McCloy

  Stronger, Habit

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• If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.

  Ginger Rogers

  Principles, I've Learned, Stand For Something

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• In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where the retreat began: in international relations. Yet only a small part of the lesson which experience ought to have taught us has been learned.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taught Us, World, Fields

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

  Ethel Percy Andrus

  Fists, World, Fingers

  Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

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• The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.

  Michelle Obama

  Mean, Kids, Weekend

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• The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hero, Heart, Past

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.159, Anchor

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• sooner or later the universe usually provides lessons of humility to those who need it the most.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Humility, Needs, Sooner Or Later

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• Sometimes we don't understand or we forget that there are no mistakes, only lessons.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Mistake, Sometimes, Forget

  Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.25, Random House

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.

  Suze Orman

  Money, Heart, Way

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• Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

  Sigrid Undset

  Ignorance, Youth, Easy

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• Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson...? The people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it.... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free.

  James Madison

  Men, Race, People

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