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• My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Mom, Husband, Father

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• At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

  Markus Wolf

  College, Problem, Tendencies

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• Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Art, Anatomy And Physiology, Training

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• If, as Marshall McLuhan once taught us, the medium is the message, then Derfner's medium-this lovely, discursive amalgamation of wit and smarts-is indeed his message about how to stay happy, sane, and honest in whatever situation one finds oneself in.

  Philip Gambone

  Smart, Taught Us, Lovely

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• We're taught by repetition but great innovators need to be great at doing the different.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Different, Needs, Repetition

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• I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

  Stephen Hawking

  Neurons, Disease, Pity

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• I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Taught Us, Important

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• During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

  Sal Albanese

  Teacher, New York, Stress

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Thinking, Pigs

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.164, 谷月社

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• In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Joy, Atheism, Doctrine

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.182, 谷月社

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• If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, Believe, Doctors

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• I have an IQ of about 160, I taught science for about fifteen years.

  Kent Hovind

  Years, Fifteen, Fifteen Years

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• Being a Sikh meant having to do what Mom and Dad said, and going to temple, and Mom and Dad choosing who I would marry. But going to an American school taught me that I was the one who's supposed to make those choices.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Mom, Dad, School

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• Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead has discovered an original and highly personal way to make herself an inhabitant both of the book and of George Eliot's imaginary city. Though I have read and taught the book these many years I find myself desiring to go back to it after reading Rebecca Mead's work.

  Harold Bloom

  Wise, Book, Reading

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• My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.

  Sam Abell

  Mother, Teacher, Brother

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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• Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

  William Saroyan

  Baby, Men, Race

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, New Directions Publishing

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• The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Knowledge, Secret

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• These teachings in regard to woman so faithfully reflect the provisions of the canon law that it is fair to infer that their inspiration came from the same source, written by men, translated by men, revised by men. If the Bible is to be placed in the hands of our children, read in our schools, taught in our theological seminaries, proclaimed as God's law in our temples of worship, let us by all means call a council of women in New York, and give it one more revision from the woman's standpoint.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  New York, Children, Inspiration

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• My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

  John Stuart Mill

  Father, Atheism, Made

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• I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, "This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me."

  George Carlin

  Believe, School, Thinking

  "The New York Times", August 20, 1995.

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• The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

  Peter Thiel

  School, Ideas, People

  Interview with Victoria Brown, bigthink.com. November 15, 2010.

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• My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also for the discipline of it. He taught us how to shoot when we were young. He opened up karate schools in the worst parts of the city, on purpose, and then he would systematically clean out a three-block radius, all of the gang-bangers and drug dealers and everybody of nefarious character.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Block, Military, Father

  Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. April 15, 2009.

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• My dad was a self-taught stride piano player. The myth is - I don't whether it's true or not - that he taught himself to play by watching a player piano.

  Mose Allison

  Dad, Player, Self

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. February 04, 2010.

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• I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.

  Tommy Chong

  Country, Usa, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

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