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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cutting, Wish

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Jewels, True Beauty

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [48]

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• What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Graduation, Learning, School

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• ...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Voice, Self, Views

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• If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

  Steve Irwin

  People, Want, Wildlife

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• My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Love, Motivational, Fathers Day

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• I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

  Samuel Beckett

  Mean, Use, Taught

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.51, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

  Norman Mailer

  Might, Blind

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• I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Believe, Cost

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “The Dawn of Freedom”

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• Life is a spiritual dance and that our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself it is the universe asking 'Shall we dance?

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Asking, Next

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• I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Heart, Night

  Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "The Myth of Sisyphus" (1942)

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• They marched. Not for themselves. They marched to remember the ones who didn't make it back. They marched because seeing so much loss can teach you about life. they marched because we're all fighting a war whether we know it or not...a war for our minds and souls and what we believe in.

  Joan Bauer

  War, Believe, Loss

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• Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Teacher, Children, Role Models

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• I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, School, Optimistic

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• The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, History, Wish

  "Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1".

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• Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax and spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh... and everybody's high!

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Army, Brave New World

  "2000 Presidential Election: Bush vs. Gore" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. November 5, 2014.

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  [Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

  Jim Henson

  Motivational, Family, Education

  Jim Henson (2007). “Wisdom from It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider”, p.54, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

  Ayn Rand

  Life Changing, Passion, Mean

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.571, Penguin

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• How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Tasks

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• Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

  Scott Adams

  Life, Food, Men

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.448, Penguin

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• Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.

  Anne Lamott

  Love You, Men, Emotional

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• I teach Sunday school, motherf*****.

  Stephen Colbert

  School, Sunday, Sunday School

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• . . . I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. And then I thought, perhaps that is what it means to be a [parent] - to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Mean, Parent

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• I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

  Helen Keller

  Mean, Men, Thorough Knowledge

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.149, Modern Library

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• He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

  Philip Roth

  Lessons, Worst

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jul 27, 2011

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