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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."	Bill Cosby
"Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose."	Richard Dawkins
"Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong."	Albert Einstein
"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."	Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."	Amanda Cross
"On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved."	Isha McKenzie-Mavinga
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."	Lucille Ball
"Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language."	William John Bennett
"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
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."	Umberto Eco
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself to do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a person's training begins, it is probably the last lesson a person learn thoroughly."	Thomas Henry Huxley
"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased."	Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"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
"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
"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."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away."	Richard David Bach
"Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit … The lesson that most of us on this voyage never learn, but can never quite forget, is that to win is sometimes to lose."	Richard Milhouse Nixon
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