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"You learn lessons. A lot of them the hard way."
"The first lesson of history is that evil is good."
"Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel.... Cure the drunkard, heal the insane, mollify the homicide, civilize the Pawnee, but what lessons can be devised for the debauchee of sentiment?"
"Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great."
"But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism."
"The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature."
"The object of our sojourns on earth, as apart from the gaining of experience, is but one. The loosing of ourselves from the coil of reincarnation, which, over and over again, brings us back to earth as on a coiled spring, until, having learned the last lesson of matter, leaped the last barrier, we are freed for ever from earth."
"I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion."
"Though there are lessons that can be learned about becoming a great leader, most exist inherently in the bellies of those who lead."
"Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."
"You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself."
"The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson."
"Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history."
"Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop."
"If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?"
"I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also like to apologise to all loyal Blue Peter viewers."
"Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it."
"A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings."
"Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people."