"Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation."
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"There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement."
"I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was."
"I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this."
"Love is a lesson worth learning."
"There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit."
"Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish"
"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance."
"The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant."
"There's nothing a teacher likes better than ten minute videos. It's not the whole class, but it's not too short, it's enough to wrap a lesson plan around."
"Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?"
"Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection."
"I started piano lessons when I was four; I was being classically trained at the Colburn School."
"The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons."
"The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book."
"If I could only fancy myself clever, it would be better, but to be a failure of Nature and to know it is not a comfortable lot. It is the last lesson one learns, to be contented with one's inferiority -- but it must be learned."
"I am the blood of the dragon. Do not presume to teach me lessons."
"I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government."
"The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top."
"Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!"