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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Lessons

"I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
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"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."

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Oprah Winfrey Television host, producer, philanthropist
Lessons

"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."

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Kate Chopin Author
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"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."

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Astrophysicist, Science Communicator
Lessons

"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."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Lessons

"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."

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Mark Cuban Entrepreneur, Investor
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"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."

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