Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not manipulate.
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I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
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Friendship.. Is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.
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The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
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I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please
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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
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No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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When I was eight, I played Little League. I was on first; I stole third; I went straight across. Earlier that week, I learned that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line. I took advantage of that knowledge.
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.
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What experience and history teach is this that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
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In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.
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Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.
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I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be done gets done.
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One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
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By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
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Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
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BesideCother art to be learned not to see what is not.
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