"And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history? If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons."
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"And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day."
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"But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn!"
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"No Sierra landscape that I have seen holds anything truly dead or dull, or any trace of what in manufactories is called rubbish or waste; everything is perfectly clean and pure and full of divine lessons."
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"My thinking was taught to tribes in South Africa like the Zulus and Xhosas. At the time there were about 210 fights breaking out among them every month, but after they listened to my lessons, this fell to just four."
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"I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life."
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"I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying."
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"The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it."
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"If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade"
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"There is no such thing as failure; everything is just a stepping stone to a greater lesson or achievement. I have found that to be absolutely true. My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up. I'm not afraid to fall on my face while I attempt new things."
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"The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach."
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"The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power."
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"I loved acting when I was doing it, but getting the jobs I didn't understand because I'd never had to do it. That was a difficult lesson for me. It was very humbling and very bizarre."
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"Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all."
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"The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America."
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"Many of Nature's finest lessons are to be found in her storms, and if careful to keep in right relations with them, we may go safely abroad with them, rejoicing in the grandeur and beauty of their works and ways."
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"There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time."
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"The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof."
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"It [piano lessons] wasn't a priority, but it was an interest and through that I became acquainted with classical music, which was a main interest at the time."
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"If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge."
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