"Painting taught literature to describe."
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"Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet your maker." Rock, despite being Catholic replied, "My dear Madam, in my faith, we are taught that the Lord is with us always. When my time comes, there will be no need for introductions.""
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"Nothing worth learning can ever be taught"
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"It is good to be taught even by an enemy"
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"Right it is to be taught even by the enemy."
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"I like to hit it downhill, thats the way I was taught to run."
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"We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language."
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"Every child has a right to be well-born, well-nurtured and well-taught, and only the freedom of woman can guarantee him this right."
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"Her lord father had taught her never to steal, but it was growing harder to remember why."
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"If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as an individual to maximize his own wealth in the market."
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"Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college."
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"We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth."
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"He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it."
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"I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school."
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"Women tend to be more intuitive, or to admit to being intuitive, and maybe the hard science approach isn't so attractive. The way that science is taught is very cold. I would never have become a scientist if I had been taught like that."
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"My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed."
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"I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else."
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"Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love."
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"Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler."
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"I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men but is a gift from God."
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