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State propaganda, when supported by the educated classes and when no deviation is permitted from it, can have a big effect. It was a lesson learned by Hitler and many others, and it has been pursued to this day.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Study your lessons, don't settle for less.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

Take a lesson from the trees, watch the way they bend with each breeze, little victories.

Tell me, Acheron, is there anyone you will ever trust enough to release your soul? (Artemis) You know better. You’ve tutored me too well on how vicious women are. On how much love ruins and destroys. Thank you for the lesson, Artemis. It was just what I needed. And I assure you, it’s one I’ll never forget. (Acheron)

That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else; or less.

That's my lesson for taking a vacation: vacation will kill you.

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

That's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

The best students get the hardest lessons.

The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?

The best way to get trained is to get mentored - live or by reading or watching videos by masters. That way, you start executing based on lessons from the best.

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.

The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.

The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.

The biggest lesson we took was when Werner [Herzog] said in a meeting with us that the mother of all challenges is to get your film seen in theater. To finally share this film has been so gratifying. The way audiences have responded, too.

The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not a prejudice that governed science from the beginning, but a lesson that has been learned through centuries of experience in the study of nature.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

The first and last lesson of religion is, "The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal." It puts an affront upon nature.

The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.