"Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday."
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"The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home."
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"Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt."
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"Satire is a lesson, parody is a game."
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"Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten."
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"I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love"
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"Not everything is a lesson. Sometimes you just fail."
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"The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION."
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"A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck."
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"Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God."
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"That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you."
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"Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn."
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"Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability."
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"Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future."
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"All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready."
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"Every one of my father's songs is a lesson."
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"A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat."
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"To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life"
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"The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective."
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"I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government."
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