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The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

The greatest single lesson to be learned from golf is mental discipline.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.

The great lesson of history for us is that strength and resolve bring peace and order, and weakness and vacillation invite chaos and conflict.

The great lesson of our time is that evil still exists, and when evil is on the march, it must be confronted.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

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

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

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

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 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.