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The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.

The lesson adults can learn here is that the world is filled with things for our enjoyment.

The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic.

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

The lesson of 9/11 is that America is truly exceptional. We withstood the worst attack of our history, intended by our enemies to destroy us. Instead, it drew us closer and made us more united. Our love for freedom and one another has given us a strength that surprised even ourselves.

The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

The lessons we learn from the wild become the etiquette of freedom.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

The lessons of history show - and I'm not talking about any particular history, all history - when you see minor abuses start to build up in the intolerance space and do nothing about them, then they lead to bigger and bigger abuses.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

The lesson of the Internet is that no audience is too small.

The lessons of nonviolence are universal. Not just for America.

The lectures you deliver may be wise and true, But I'd rather get my lessons by observing what you do. I may not understand the high advise you like to give, But there's no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.

The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.

The lesson that I learned is that you can't drop everything for one person. I've done that and that person has broken up with me, and I've had nothing.

The lesson to learn is to pay attention for 90 minutes because in front of you are great champions.

the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.

The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.

The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.

The managers at fault periodically report on the lesson they have learned from the latest disappointment. They then usually seek out future lessons.

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.

The most important lesson I learned ... was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time.

The most important lesson I've learned in this business is how to say no. I have said no to a lot of temptations, and I am glad I did.

The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.

The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

The net promoter score of health insurers averages 4/100. Amazon is 74/100.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.

The only lesson I really learned from [Gigi Does It] was that I shouldn't bite off more than I could chew. I've written a bunch of scripts and stuff - every actor has - and that was the first thing that got made.

The object of our sojourns on earth, as apart from the gaining of experience, is but one. The loosing of ourselves from the coil of reincarnation, which, over and over again, brings us back to earth as on a coiled spring, until, having learned the last lesson of matter, leaped the last barrier, we are freed for ever from earth.

The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.

The only reason that we humans and all creatures have made it thus far is because of the lessons learned consciously and unconsciously through the challenges we have been through.

The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.

The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.