"You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion."
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"I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent."
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"My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible."
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"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair"
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"Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have."
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"Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more."
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"The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."
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"Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common."
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"I was taught the method for advancement is not quick or simple."
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"Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?"
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"Frida Kahlo taught me a lot without ever bragging about anything."
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"Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything.""
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"I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived."
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"I'd been taught to paint like other people, and I thought, what's the use? I couldn't do any better than they, or even as well. I was just adding to the brushpile. So I quit."
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"Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create."
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"Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing."
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"It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
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"It is okay for people you love to leave. For them to come and go. She taught it to me over and over."
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"I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'"
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"I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered."
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