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• That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Brain, Would Be

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• It's always the mother's fault, ain't it?" she said softly, collecting her coat. "That boy turn out bad cause his mama a drunk, or she a junkie. She let him run wild, she don't teach him right from wrong. She never home when he back from school. Nobody ever say his daddy a drunk, or his daddy not home after school. And nobody ever say they some kids just damned mean.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, Running, Home

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• If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Our World, Self

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• The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Determination, Learning

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• God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.

  Rumi

  Faith, Attitude, Mean

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

  Derrick Bell

  Self, Mentor, May

  "Ethical Ambition".

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• O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Looks, Midsummer

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• Teach you to try marrying me, you idiot!

  Rick Riordan

  Trying, Idiot, Marrying

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.

  R. L. Stine

  Children, Fun, Book

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• Teaching, therefore, asks first of all the creation of a space where students and teachers can enter into a fearless communication with each other and allow their respective life experiences to be their primary and most valuable source of growth and maturation. It asks for a mutual trust in which those who teach and those who want to learn can become present to each other, not as opponents, but as those who share in the same struggle and search for the same truth.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teacher, Communication, Teaching

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• Eve took me to teach me how to fence," Claire said. "Not so much how to fence as how to hold a sword and not drop it," Eve said. "And then I fought Oliver to a draw." Shane fluttered his hands. "Oh, and then we were all elected as ice princesses and asked to go to Disneyland!" "Laugh all you want. I'm going to look way better in full skirts than you," Eve said.

  Rachel Caine

  Princess, Ice, Hands

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• Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Heart, Self, People

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• Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?" "Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?" "What's the difference?" "That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?" -Jacen & Vergere

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Teacher, Differences, Students

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• Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Love, Song, Lonely

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.124, Macmillan

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• Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring truths to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Home, Son

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Men, Years, Soul

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys & A Sequel - Jo's Boys and How They Turned Out (Children’s Classics Series – Illustrated Edition)”, p.414, e-artnow

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• So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Memories, Mind, Bags

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• Vee lowered her lashes and smiled wickedly. "This class isn't going to teach me anything I don't already know." "Vee? As in virgin?" "Not so loud." She winked just as the bell rang, sending us both to our seats, which were side by side at our shared table.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Class, Bells, Tables

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Lonely, Thinking, Forever

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Broken Kingdoms”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• I'll teach you how to defend yourself, how to maim a man. We can use Po as a model.' 'Wonderful,' Po said. 'It's quite boring really, the way you beat me to death with your hands and feet, Katsa. It'll be refreshing to have you come at me with a knife.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Feet, Hands

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• Cause there's nothing, there's nothing you can teach me That I can't learn from Mr. Hathaway.

  Amy Winehouse

  Causes, I Can

  Song: Rehab, Album: Back To Black, 2007

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• I heard Tammy say you could be charming. I haven't seen any proof yet." Oh, his cat like that. "I thought I was very charming when I petted you into orgasm." He shot her a look filled with sexual heat. "I plan to do more of that - right after I teach you about keeping secrets.

  Nalini Singh

  Cat, Keeping Secrets, Looks

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• Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.9, Fig

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• Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago. Anyway, being a fish, you knew how to swim. You were a great swimmer. A champion swimmer, you were. You loved the water. Why? What do you mean, why? Why did I love the water? Because it was your life! And as we talked, I would have let him go one finger at a time, until, without his realizing, he'd be floating without me. Perhaps that is what it means to be a father-to teach your child to live without you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Children, Father, Mean

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• We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Mean, Shining

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.248, Thomas Nelson Inc

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