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Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates... Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service, should learn to think and act as a mass. Che Guevara
Michael Ondaatje quote: "A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she..."
A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it Michael Ondaatje
It's full of phonies and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a golden Cadillac... J. D. Salinger
I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you. Thomas Harris
There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself. Ryszard Kapuscinski
Whenever she sat still, just looking at something, she got the feeling that she was wasting precious time when she should be doing things to meet people. She could be spending her time so much better, because there was still so much to learn. Paulo Coelho
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned..."
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors. Gilbert K. Chesterton
George R. R. Martin quote: "The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot..."
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it. George R. R. Martin
Graham Greene quote: "O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too..."
O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever. Graham Greene
I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth. Haruki Murakami
Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life. Les Brown
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "Too bad we'll never know if this is a face you could learn to..."
Too bad we'll never know if this is a face you could learn to love.- Angel show "Hero Arthur Conan Doyle
One day—when the emperor had come to call on his uncle the cardinal—our worthy priest happened to be waiting as his Majesty went by. Noticing that the old man looked at him with a certain curiosity, Napoleon turned around and said brusquely, ‘Who is this good man looking at me?’ ‘Sire,’ replied M. Myriel, “you are looking at a good man, and I at a great one. May we both be the better for it.” That evening the emperor asked the cardinal the priest’s name, Still later, M. Myriel was totally... Victor Hugo
Were all stars to disappear and die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time. W. H. Auden
Globalization makes it impossible for modern societies to collapse in isolation, as did Easter Island and the Greenland Norse in the past. Any society in turmoil today, no matter how remote ... can cause trouble for prosperous societies on other continents and is also subject to their influence (whether helpful or destabilizing). For the first time in history, we face the risk of a global decline. But we also are the first to enjoy the opportunity of learning quickly from developments in... Jared Diamond

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