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• Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

  Elihu Burritt

  Giving, Lightning, Oratory

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• it's a reminder of one of the greatest lessons of all: live as if you'll live forever, but live each day as if it were your last.

  Mark Richardson

  Forever, Each Day, Lasts

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• The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

  Kirby Larson

  Life, Heart, Caring

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.162, Yearling

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• Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Self, Important, Slavery

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Slave Narrative Six Pack 2”, p.281, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Every experience, however bitter, has its lesson, and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.

  Edward Howard Griggs

  Focus, Overcoming, Attention

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• We always hate the school room where we learn hard lessons. But then we love it, because that's the school that taught us all we know, and gave us all the strength we have.

  Gwen Bristow

  Education, Hate, Learning

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• Wounds make better lessons than lectures.

  Brian Herbert

  Hurt, Lectures, Wounds

  Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.424, Spectra

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• I learned that if you love a boy you are no longer free. The boy may become more important than your own self and if it is so, you will find trouble there. The first time you are hurt in your heart, you do not forget the lesson. It stays forever.

  Susan Minot

  Hurt, Heart, Boys

  Susan Minot (2014). “Thirty Girls”, p.167, Vintage

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• The Afghansti have caused a great many people a great deal of grief and have themselves suffered - for a lie, let us not forget - the same ways we in the United States have caused much suffering in Southeast Asia, and have also suffered much in return, also for a lie. It was no small betrayal, no small lesson for a man to learn at the age of 19. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -the darkness that is always with us.

  Larry Heinemann

  Betrayal, Lying, Grief

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• The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Teach, Ifs

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• I can pick up a screenplay and flip through the pages.  If all I see is dialog, dialog, dialog, I won't even read it.  I don't care how good the dialog is - it's a moving picture.  It has to move all the time... It's not the stage.  A movie audience doesn't have the patience to sit and learn a lesson.  Their eyes need to be dazzled.  The writer is the most important element in the entire film because if it ain't on the page it ain't going to be on the screen.

  Robert Evans

  Moving, Eye, Important

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• I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

  Ringo Starr

  Dad, Real, Son

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• It's important that the United States not forget the lessons of September the 11th, 2001. I assure you, I'm not going to forget them.

  George W. Bush

  Important, United States, September

  "President Bush in Georgia". President Bush's speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

  George W. Bush

  Practice, Personality, Common

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.

  Patti Smith

  Betrayal, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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  I believe that every interaction is an act of fate in some way, that we're meant to interact with them, and it's our job to flesh that out and experience it to the fullest and learn the lessons we're meant to.

  Megan Fox

  Jobs, Believe, Fate

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• Seeing people laugh definitely inspires me, and so does seeing people get life lessons about living better.

  Tyler Perry

  Life Lesson, People, Laughing

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I remember someone once saying, "Pete, you know you really should take voice lessons." And I said, "Well, if I could find any voice teacher that could teach me to sing like Lead Belly I'd spend every cent to study under him." But every time you'd go to a voice teacher, he'd teach you to warble, as if you'd want to be an opera singer, and that's not what I'm interested in.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Voice, Opera

  Source: www.folkmusicworldwide.com

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• Make the kind of music you love even if you never hear it on the air. This was the basic lesson I'd gotten from Alan [Lomax]. Alan said, Pete, look at all this great music around. You never hear it on the radio, but it's right there, great music.

  Pete Seeger

  Air, Looks, Radio

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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  A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

  Garth Brooks

  Mistake, Learning Lessons, Ifs

  Interview with Kevin Freiberg, www.freibergs.com.

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• The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do it, with ledgers of 'hows' balanced with 'its' that dissolve in the crashing changes ahead. The leader for today and the future will be focused on how to be - how to develop quality, character mind-set, values, principles, and courage.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Leadership, Character, Mind

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• Mistakes are lessons that you need to learn!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mistake, Needs

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• Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.

  Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

  New York, Father, Hands

  Speech at the University of Oregon, Nashville, 2004.

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• The Wayshower is a compelling, multi-layered and complex spiritual journey about a guilt-ridden man searching to understand his connection to his guru J-R. Followers of the real-life guru, John-Roger, as well as a segment of new-thought seekers, will resonate with the messages and life lessons shared throughout.

  Arielle Ford

  Spiritual, Real, Life Lesson

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• I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

  Donalyn Miller

  People, Taught, Students

  Donalyn Miller (2010). “The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child”, p.16, John Wiley & Sons

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