"Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things."
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"Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do."
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"Africans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries."
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"Forget what you've been taught so you can remember what you know."
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"Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!"
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"He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught."
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"My mum taught me to have a soul."
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"We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this exercise was not to begin a sentence with "And." When I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with "And," I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves at that time was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible."
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"There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them."
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"What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison."
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"Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught."
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"Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught."
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"Suppose that we believe what we are taught. . . . destroying the environment and militarizing outer space are rational policies . . . of institutional lunacy."
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"Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning."
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"Respect those who grew up and learned alongside you. Respect those who taught you."
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"The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person."
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"I think school is a place where thinking should be taught."
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"I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm."
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"Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught."
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"In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside."
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