"All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess."
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"Lessons are not given, they are taken."
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"Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last."
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"The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on."
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"Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten."
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"Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach."
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"listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot"
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"The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us."
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"He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons."
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"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."
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"The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace."
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"This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself."
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"My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly."
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"I learned to walk as a baby, and I haven't had a lesson since."
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"Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure."
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"The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter."
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"The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better."
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"Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson."
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"True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love."
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"Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time"
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