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You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it. Steve Martin
She had seen them in turmoil all round her--love, hatred, vengeance, treachery--she herself practically the pivot around which they raged. Out of the deadly strife she had emerged pure, happy in the arms of the man whom her wondrous adventures as much as his brilliant personality had taught her to love. Baroness Orczy
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never explained. Nelson Mandela
Helen Fielding quote: "we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our..."
..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'. Helen Fielding
He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way." - Odd Thomas - "Odd Hours by Dean Koontz pg 239 chapter 30 Dean Koontz
...Plato rightly taught that virtue is one. You cannot be kind unless you have all the other virtues. If, being cowardly, conceited, and slothful, you have never yet done a fellow creature great mischief, that is only because your neighbour's welfare has not yet happened to conflict with your safety, self-approval, or ease. Every vice leads to cruelty. C. S. Lewis
Georgette Heyer quote: "How the duece would you know the right way to go on if you was..."
How the duece would you know the right way to go on if you was never taught anything but the wrong way? Georgette Heyer
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a..."
Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I could have had one life but insteads I had another because of this book my grandmother protected. What a miracle is that? I was taught to love beautiful things. I had a language in which to consider beauty. Later that extended to the opera, to the ballet, to architecture I saw, and even later still I came to realize that what I had seen in the paintings I could see in the fields or a river. I could see it in people. All of that I attribute to this book. Ann Patchett
Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there. Chuck Palahniuk
Oscar Wilde quote: "Education is a wonderful thing, provided you understand that..."
Education is a wonderful thing, provided you understand that nothing worth knowing can ever be taught. Oscar Wilde
Malcolm Gladwell quote: "A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living..."
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. Malcolm Gladwell
The last line of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is addressed to the American people and their congressmen. "As they deal with me and my people, kindly, generously, and justly, so may the Great Ruler of all nations deal with the grand and glorious nation of the United States of America." It's clever to imply that if the U.S. swallows up her little country, God will smite it. As I reread the last sentance of a book written by a Hawaiian queen wh was taught to read and write by American... Sarah Vowell
She catches hold, then of this word "nothing," and stabs at it with a multitude of words and examples, and by means of a suitable interpretation, reduces it to this, that "nothing" can mean the same as "only a little thing" or "an imperfect thing;" she expounds in other words what the Sophists have hitherto taught regarding this passage: "Apart from me you can do nothing," that is to say "nothing perfectly. Martin Luther
Robert A. Heinlein quote: "There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons,..."
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. Robert A. Heinlein

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