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• When negotiations are at an impasse, when States dig their heels in, it is time to 'undig' them in a spirit of compromise. We all need to unlearn the predator in us, unlearn discrimination, unlearn privilege.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Needs, Predator, Privilege

  "From New York to World’s Conflict Zones, UN Marks International Day of Peace". news.un.org. September 21, 2012.

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• Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.

  Jim Gaffigan

  School, Holiday, Kids

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.222, Crown Archetype

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• I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing things in that world that's a little hard to unlearn.

  Steve Dildarian

  Party, World, Littles

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Ice Cream, Chocolate, May

  Diane Von Furstenberg, Evelyn Portrait (1976). “Diane Von Furstenberg's Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman”, Simon & Schuster

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• Traditional ad agencies have so much to unlearn.

  Edward Boches

  Agency, Ads, Traditional

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• Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Agency, Population

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

  John Darnielle

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Country, Husband, Taken

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• ...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

  Sarah Dessen

  Want, Knows, Ifs

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.58, Penguin

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• What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Lonely, Encouragement, Insecure

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• Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it out.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cutting, Woven, Able

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.216, St. Martin's Press

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• That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Teaching, Long

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• Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.

  William James

  War, Years, Gentleman

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Libertarian, Young

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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• So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue to use it everywhere all over the world there. And I think, in a way, nonviolence is our nature. Violence is not really our nature. If violence was our nature, we wouldn't need military academies and martial arts institutes to teach us how to kill and destroy people. We ought to have been born with those instincts. But the fact that we have to learn the art of killing means that it's a learned experience. And we can always unlearn it.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Art, Military, Mean

  "Satyagraha 100 Years Later: Gandhi Launches Modern Non-Violent Resistance Movement on Sept. 11, 1906". "Democracy NOW!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 8, 2006.

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• There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling.

  Barry Green

  Reading, Expression, Play

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• I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

  Louise Hay

  Religious, Learning, Thinking

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• Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired.

  Joshua L. Goldberg

  Needs, Students, Painting

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• I don't think you ever learn just one thing. At some point you start unlearning things. I have been working hard to unlearn everything I know.

  Terry Gilliam

  Thinking, Knows, Has Beens

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.

  Gloria Steinem

  Change, Learning, Mean

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• A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Arrogance, Important

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• The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way
  forward but to dissolve the thoughts and feeling that make you miserable.
  You don't have to learn your destiny--you already know it; you just have to unlearn the thoughts that blind you to what you know.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Destiny, Thinking

  Martha Beck (2009). “Steering by Starlight: The Science and Magic of Finding Your Destiny”, p.18, Rodale

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• Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.

  Ernst Haas

  Education, Opposites

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• We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.

  Ernst Haas

  Important, Problem, Sometimes

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• We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

  Felix Adler

  Children, Age, Needs

  "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.

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