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"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."	Dame Margot Fonteyn
"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."	Gerald R. Ford
"We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world."	J(ames) William Fulbright
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."	Maxim Gorky
"The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones-which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones."	Sydney J. Harris
"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth."	Goldie Hawn
"If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators."	William Hazlitt
"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."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?"	Theodore M. Hesburgh
"Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy."	Napolean Hill
"Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults."	Eric Hoffer
"It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts."	Kim Hubbard
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't."	Bruce Jenner
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
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