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Lesson Quotes (page 19)

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... [a man] may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson. B. F. Skinner
Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you. Alexander Dumas
Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know. Luther Burbank
Elie Wiesel quote: "Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson,..."
Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson, but losing one's time is a sin? Elie Wiesel
George Santayana quote: "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to..."
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. George Santayana
It is hard, said Mme Landau, when I told her about those railway lessons, in the end it is hard to know what it is that someone dies of. Yes, it is very hard, said Mme Landau, one really doesn't know. W. G. Sebald
She had somehow given over the thinking to him, and in his absences her every action seemed automatically governed by what he would like, so that now she felt inadequate to match her intentions against his. Yet think she must; she knew at last the number on the dreadful door of fantasy, the threshold to the escape that was no escape; she knew that for her greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you think—or else... F. Scott Fitzgerald
The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things that are worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing , but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy. Now if you will excuse me I have to drive to Vermont and collect some mail from a Mr. Bubba. Bill Bryson
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. John Burroughs
Philip Roth quote: "He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it..."
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense. Philip Roth
Amy Tan quote: "Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose..."
Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever. Amy Tan
If there's to be damnation, she had said, let it be of my choosing, not theirs. He knew a little about damnation himsel? and he had an idea that the lessons, far from being done, were just beginning. Stephen King
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a... Christopher Hitchens
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars. Walt Whitman
To enlighten mankind and improve its morals is the only lesson which we offer in this story. In reading it, may the world discover how great is the peril which follows the footsteps of those who will stop at nothing to satisfy their desires. Marquis de Sade

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