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I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

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Excellence is the new forever.

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Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

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But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

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MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

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A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

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Habit is the nursery of errors.

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

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The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

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No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

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Any noun can be verbed.

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