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

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

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 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 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.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.

To tell you the truth, I've never been really good at learning other people's stuff. I've been playing since I was 11, and I never took lessons. I kind of learned through hit and miss. I had the patience just because I loved guitar so much.

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

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.

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.

True greatness depends on total wisdom. The real lesson is to learn to love.

Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Trust the people -- that is the crucial lesson of history.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn't learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price - and they'll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.