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There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.

There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust and this is the lesson which Auschwitz taught us.

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

The show is not a history lesson or intellectual exploration. It is entertainment based on tension, irony and storytelling that is closely related to today’s life.

The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

The state of healthcare today is that we are busy in the practice of medicine vs. being in the science of medicine.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone.

The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. “Teaching to the middle” is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about.

The ultimate lesson of The Interpretation of Dreams: reality is for those who cannot sustain the dream.

The two toughest lessons to learn In life are “LET GO” & “LETs GO..!

The winner's margin of victory also matters. If it's a squeaker, that will make the lessons learned for both parties much murkier.

The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

Things always work out if you don't send that e-mail. That's another great life lesson: I've sent enough e-mails of just "f - k you, f - k you, f - k you" and hit send. I've learned a lot from never being able to take back that I sent that e-mail.

This has to be your first lesson in sannyas: accept yourself, love yourself, drop all guilt, don`t divide yourself. There is nothing higher, nothing lower; all of you is divine. The lowest is as divine as the highest.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced to die by them.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

Through all hardships there is a lesson to be learned.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.

Through the process of reincarnation we have all lived on other planets and in other dimensions and we will continue to do so after our lessons on Earth have been completed. Earth is merely a school - one of many in our long education.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.

Today, life will offer me many lessons. I will learn nothing.

To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.