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• Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives. Cancerphobia taught us the fear of a polluting environment; now we have the fear of polluting people that AIDS anxiety inevitably communicates. Fear of the Communion cup, fear of surgery: fear of contaminated blood, whether Christ's blood or your neighbor's.

  Susan Sontag

  Blood, People, Anxiety

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• Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Home, Average, Long

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.147, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

  Joanna Lumley

  Mother, Dog, Believe

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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• A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.

  Jo Coudert

  Sex, Loneliness, Roots

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• In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.

  Mary Cunningham Agee

  Leadership, Jobs, Business

  Mary Cunningham, Mary Cunningham Agee, Fran Schumer (1984). “Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix”, Simon & Schuster

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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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• Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.

  Ben Salmon

  Brother, Art, Father

  "Letter To President Wilson" by Ben Salmon, June 5, 1917.

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• If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Past, Government, Years

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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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

  World, Lessons, Fields

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

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• The love of God is not taught. No one has taught us to enjoy the light or to be attached to life more than anything else. And no one has taught us to love the two people who brought us into the world and educated us. Which is all the more reason to believe that we did not learn to love God as a result of outside instruction. In the very nature of every human being has been sown the seed of the ability to love. You and I ought to welcome this seed, cultivate it carefully, nourish it attentively and foster its growth by going to the school of God's commandments with help of His grace.

  Saint Basil

  Love, Truth, Believe

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• Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.

  Will Rogers

  Civilization, Use, Fingers

  Will Rogers (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935”

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• Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

  Rex Brandt

  Dark, Light, Texture

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• Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

  George Washington

  Men, Execution, Intervention

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.62

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• AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

  Ryan White

  Sister, Mom, Sorry

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• [ Bernard] Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Japan, Trying, Etching

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah." They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.

  Betty Dodson

  Running, Fun, Blah

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• Capitalism has taught us that markets are always more efficient than hierarchical managerial coordination. But in a situation where those three conditions aren't met, I can't outsource or partner with you because markets don't function in the absence of sufficient information.

  Clayton Christensen

  Information, Three, Absence

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Folks, Brian Williams isn't the exception. He's exactly what they've taught us to expect from them all. It's not journalism any more - it's entertainment, it's celebrity, it's agendas and it's money. All too often, a lie is now an acceptable way of communicating. To the media, a lie has as much value as the truth.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Lying, Media, Agendas

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• As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

  Pema Chodron

  Reality, Enemy, Wish

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• The biggest thing our dad taught us is that enthusiasm is real. He talks about coaching with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind. To me, that's how he lives his life. And the relationships he had with his players.

  John Harbaugh

  Dad, Real, Player

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sports, Space, Rocks

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, October 2, 2006.

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• I think the Church is a conduit to God. The Church is not God. And I think that from the very beginning Jesus taught us that.

  Martin Sheen

  Jesus, Thinking, Church

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• I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

  Masi Oka

  School, College, Computer

  "Masi Oka: Coder, actor, hero". www.wired.com. October 25, 2006.

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• Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable, which is why wheat isn't money; divisible which is why works of art are not money; consistent which is why real estate isn't money; convenient, which is why lead isn't money; value in itself, which is why paper shouldn't be money. Gold answers to all these criteria.

  Doug Casey

  Art, Real, Years

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• Our father taught us how to play. He's also our biggest inspiration and he opened our ears to a lot of older music, like Richie Valens, Chuck Berry, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino.

  Henry Garza

  Father, Inspiration, Play

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