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• We are taught that we can be better than we are. But is there a limit to how good we can be?

  David Bezmozgis

  Limits

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives.

  Camille Paglia

  Exercise, Feminist, Feminism

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• Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Jobs, Keys, Poetry

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

  Ella Winter

  Struggle, Fighting, Fruit

  Ella Winter (1963). “And not to yield: an autobiography”

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• if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Pain, Long, Silence

  Phyllis Bottome (1934). “Innocence and experience: stories”

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• Children with heaven in their eyes and an air of mystery about them, meditative and quiet, friends of God, friends of all, loved and loving and asking very little from the outer world, because they have more than enough within. They are classed as the dreamers, but they are really seers. They do not ask much and they do not need much beyond a reverent guardianship and to be let alone and allowed to grow; they will find this way for they are 'taught of God.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Children, Eye, Air

  Janet Erskine Stuart (2012). “The Education of Catholic Girls”, p.49, tredition

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• Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.

  Dervla Murphy

  Reality, Sick, Growth

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• one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?

  Dervla Murphy

  What Matters, Race, Sick

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• The more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.

  Dorothee Solle

  People, Suffering, Apathy

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• My fear of anger taught me nothing.

  Audre Lorde

  Anger

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.124, Crossing Press

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• Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Teacher, Fear

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.154, Granta Books

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• Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.

  Martha Gellhorn

  War, Years, Holocaust

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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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• Trading has taught me not to take the conventional wisdom for granted. What money I made in trading is testimony to the fact that the majority is wrong a lot of the time. The vast majority is wrong even more of the time. I've learned that markets, which are often just mad crowds, are often irrational; when emotionally overwrought, they're almost always wrong.

  Richard Dennis

  Mad, Majority, Crowds

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• [On masturbation:] I think that it is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Thinking, Sexuality, Masturbation

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• Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Sweet, Husband

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• The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase their pranic levels and help them develop their psychic skills.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Psychics, Skills

  Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

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• Each one of you has created a sense of self. That's what the tonal does. Each one of you is taught a system of maintenance that has been developed by humankind from your birth till your death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Doe

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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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• It's guilty of the very thing that makes kids hate history as a subject when it's taught badly: The Da Vinci Code makes the past feel like a dull, grainy, faraway thing, instead of something vibrant and alive.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Hate, Kids, Past

  "The Da Vinci Code". www.salon.com. May 18, 2006.

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• I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

  Mark Takano

  Writing, School, Years

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• I've learned what Trump has taught - we need to put our best foot forward and don't let anybody block us from anything that we wish to do or want to do.

  LaToya Jackson

  Block, Feet, Wish

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• If we aren't careful, our children will come down with 'affluenza,' a disease that causes them to confuse wants and needs. We need to teach our children what my grandmother taught me: Think twice about spending money you don't have on things you don't need to impress people you don't like anyway.

  Michelle Singletary

  Money, Children, Grandmother

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• In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Generations, Subordination, More Time

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• My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.

  Otto Skorzeny

  Pain, War, Enemy

  "Skorzeny" by Charles Whiting, (p. 17), 1972.

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