"The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience."
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"Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know."
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"Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons."
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"We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn."
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"A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better."
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"I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do."
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"Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt."
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"Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable."
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"The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived."
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"The lesson is clear. Inflation devalues us all."
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"Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate."
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"I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people."
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"You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one."
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"Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself."
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"The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science."
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"We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation."
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"The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not."
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"Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance."
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"A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends."
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"Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way."
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