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We didn't start the fireIt was always burningSince the world's been turningWe didn't start the fireN...

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Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get ...

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Brad PaisleyDiary of a Player: How My Musical Heroes Made a Guitar Man Out of Me

Nearly everything that happened had happened before. The grand lesson of history.

The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watc...

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She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and t...

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I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn't.I just meant I'd seen some thin...

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For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all bu...

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I believe in the understanding of difficult situations, difficult music, or any kind of difficulties...

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I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I ...

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At some point, one asks, "Toward what end is my life lived?" A great freedom comes from being able t...

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Diane AckermanThe Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sin

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like yo...

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There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal lig...

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces...

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There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.Ten hours...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Just remember that when nobody else was there for you I was.And when nobody else gave a damn I did.

Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly

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Mary HowittThe Spider and the Fly

There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have...

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I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth."I gave up," I whispered."Don't give u...

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Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the...

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Mitch AlbomThe Five People You Meet in Heaven

The things you spend so much time on--all this work you do--might not seem as important. You might h...

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One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I ...

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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

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On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost e...

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The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also lear...

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What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s...

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Scott LynchThe Lies of Locke Lamora

I tell you, lad, that men will believe is one says, "The Gods say..." They will believe if one says,...

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It is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. ...

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I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out beingvery good

He walked out without his money.The lesson to me was clear: hold onto your integrity at all costs. N...

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You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NO...

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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood asid...

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unl...

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The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitivel...

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons...

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Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I...

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London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

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Anna QuindlenImagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: ...

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It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past.

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Arundhati RoyThe Ministry of Utmost Happiness