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• Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

  Peter Farb

  School, Way, Study

  Peter Farb (1968). “Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State”

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• Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Woe, Fellowship, Self Pity

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With a Life of the Author”, p.18

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• I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

  William Shakespeare

  Firsts, Should, Teach

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [439]

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• If you are missing out on the natural joy and wisdom of life, it is because you have been taught to ignore it....Reconnecting with nature consists of bringing into your consciousness a sensory way of thinking and relating with which you are born

  Michael J Cohen

  Nature, Thinking, Missing

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• Commitment cannot be taught;
  it can only be caught.
  I refer to the crusading spirit.
  Without the crusading spirit,
  you may have the starting power
  but not the staying power.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Stay Strong, Powerful, Commitment

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• Magpie, n.: A bird whose theivish disposition suggested to someone that it might be taught to talk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Bird, Might, Disposition

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• O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear!

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Years, Land, Giving

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• I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

  Agnes Denes

  School, Self, Self Taught

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Punishment

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen (2017). “Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula”, p.622, Open Road Media

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• I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

  George Eliot

  Mean, Blessing, Thinking

  George Eliot (2004). “Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life”, p.400, Broadview Press

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• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  Savitri Devi

  Real, Humble, Sight

  Savitri Devi (2010). “The Lightning and the Sun”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• It is good to be taught even by an enemy

  Ovid

  Enemy

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• The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in Lascaux and Altimira!

  Pablo Picasso

  Men, Drawing, Wonderful

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• Physical science has taught us to associate Deity with the normal rather than with the abnormal.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Taught Us, Abnormal, Deities

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• Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

  John Milton

  Too Much, Drink, Temperance

  John Milton (2003). “The Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.445, Hackett Publishing

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• I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that the past was neither quiet nor mute.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Education, Past, Museums

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• Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that.

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Cold, Scientist

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• Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Appreciation, Passion, Creative

  Lewis Grizzard (1991). “Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine”

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• I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.

  Gustave Courbet

  Education, Art, Inspiration

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• Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Color, Law, Drawing

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• I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

  Tanith Lee

  Father, Writing, Mad

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• We're not really taught how to recreate constructively. We need to do more than find diversions; we need to restore and expand ourselves. Our idea of relaxing is all too often to plop down in front of the television set and let its pandering idiocy liquefy our brains. Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivational, Running, Ideas

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• It's art that's taught me to think and to write.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Writing, Thinking

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• Rich dad has taught me "You can't do it" doesn't necessarily mean "you can't". It more often means "they can't".

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Dad, Mean, Rich

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• All great contemporary artists, schooled or not, are essentially self-taught and are de-skilling like crazy.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Crazy, Self

  "The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos : A Renaissance of Romanticism in Modernity" by Pietros Maneos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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