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“Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.”

Mean Doe Humanity Teach Buddhism Lessons Harm Innocent

“I think I wish I had never spanked my children, but I have. And they remember every instance like they tattooed it on their palms. I think it's a terrible lesson, to use physical punishment to make a point about not behaving, not being kind to their siblings, to other people. I mean that's just absurd. But I've lost it, I understand it.”

People Thinking Kind Mean Children Use Remember Lost Wish Terrible Lessons Punishment Absurd Instance My Children Be Kind Palms Sibling Tattooed

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“God brings men [and women] into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse [teach and improve] them. [It is fair and appropriate to get excited about what those lessons and improvements to you will mean for the future happiness of you and those you care about.]”

Men Mean Care Water Teach Lessons Men And Women Fairs Excited Improvement Appropriate Anticipation Deep Water Future Happiness

Author:John H Aughey

“The world exists, not for what it means but for what it is. The purpose of mushrooms is to be mushrooms, wine is in order to be wine: things are precious before they are contributory. It is a false piety that walks through creation looking only for lessons which can be applied somewhere else. To be sure, God remains the greatest good; but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own natural goodness; He has no use for it, only delight.”

World Needs Mean Doe Stills Reason Whole Use Lying Purpose Order Natural Walks Creation Lessons Goodness Remains Wine Environmental Delight Somewhere Else Piety Mushrooms

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“Fogeydom is the last bastion of the bore and reminiscence is its anthem. It is futile to want the old days back, but that doesn't mean one should ignore the lessons of the visitable past.”

Want Should Mean Lasts Past Lessons Bores Old Days Anthem

Author:Paul Theroux

“I feel love for people that I have loved, and I think that's so beautiful, and I think that's such an important lesson for children that people can have disagreements but it doesn't mean one is bad and one is good.”

People Thinking Feels Mean Children Important Beautiful Lessons Disagreement Important Lessons

Author:Anna Kendrick

“Write down your barrier thoughts, and then consider ways to reinterpret the situation. In the process, ask yourself questions like... What else could this situation or experience mean? Can anything good come from it? Does it present any opportunities for me? What lessons can I learn and apply to the future? Did I develop any strengths as a result?”

Way Writing Mean Doe Asks Opportunity Process Results Situation Lessons Barriers

Book:The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

Source: The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want

“The work-life balance is a harsh reality for so many women, who are forced every day to make impossible choices. Do they take their kids to the doctor...and risk getting fired? Do they work weekends so they can afford to send their kids to better childcare...even though it means even less time with their families? Do they take another shift at work, so they can pay for piano lessons for their kids...even though it means they have to stop volunteering for the PTA? It just shouldn't be this difficult to raise healthy families.”

“Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.”

Mean Suffering Lessons

Book:The Bach Flower Remedies

Source: The Bach Flower Remedies

“When I tap, it means I've accepted the technique, learned the lesson and look to apply the experience next time I step on the mat. I never give up.”

Giving Looks Mean Next Steps Lessons Giving Up Technique Accepted Next Time Never Giving Up I Never Give Up

Author:Ryron Gracie

“I remember doing one day of work, and I was so good I ended up doing 25 days on that movie. And all of it ended up on the editing room floor. That was my first Hollywood lesson: Just because you filmed a movie doesn't necessarily mean that you're in it.”

Firsts Mean Remember Rooms Lessons One Day Hollywood Editing

Author:Eddie Griffin

“The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.”

Mean Perfect Records One Thing Theory Lessons Ears Guitar Piano Eric

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“I learned two basic lessons on Everest. First, just because something has worked in the past does not mean it will work today. Second, different challenges require different mindsets.”

Firsts Mean Doe Two Different Today Past Challenges Lessons Mindset Everest

Author:Lewis Gordon

“One of the greatest things that ever taught me a super lesson was when I seen a baby come out of my woman's womb. The head and body - you know, a baby's born inside a woman's stomach, you know all that. But to watch this thing come out and fight for life, yo, and to see the woman's risking her life at the same time this thing is fighting for life, you know what I mean?”

Knows Mean Body Fighting Born Watches Taught Baby Lessons Stomach Womb

Author:RZA

“The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.”

World Way Giving Mean Whole Objects Lessons Protection Whole World Hinduism Cows

Book:The Way to Communal Harmony

Source: The Way to Communal Harmony

“More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.”

Way Mean Long Simple Special Students Lessons Bills Reform Our Time More Time Preparing Long Way Educator Time Spent Paperwork

Author:Christopher Bond

“Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.”

People Kind Mean Persons Body Community Violence Taught Lessons Tradition Logic Beast Civilized Barbarians Wild Beasts

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I think the biggest lesson that I've learned is that no one owes you anything. It doesn't matter if you've worked with this person, or you have a piece of work that you think is great. It doesn't mean they're going to agree with you and give you money to do it.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Mean Persons Matter Pieces Lessons Agree I've Learned

Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston

“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.”

“I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit" book; and this for two reasons: What a child digs for is his own possession; what is poured into his ear, like the idle song of a pleasant singer, floats out as lightly as it came in, and is rarely assimilated. I do not mean to say that the lecture and the oral lesson are without their uses; but these uses are, to give impulse and to order knowledge; and not to convey knowledge.”

Thinking Giving Mean Children Two Book Reason Use Song Order Subjects Fit Lessons Ears Possession Singers Impulse Pleasant Idle Floats Lectures

Author:Charlotte Mason

“Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.”

Needs Mean Mistake Lessons Making Mistakes

Author:Wally Amos

“I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.”

Needs Mean Acting Taken Lessons

Author:Miley Cyrus

“I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.”

Way Feels Mean Reason Values Social Objects Evolution Lessons Social Life

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.”

Mean Has Beens Together Vision Progress Week Team Lessons Projects Importance Missions

Author:David Karp

“I think the lesson's learned are that we have to have to have a strategy to get and a strategy to get out. Which means, that you create a stable situation.”

Thinking Mean Situation Lessons Strategy Stable

Author:Jeb Bush

“Let the children learn to see in nature an expression of the love and the wisdom of God; let the thought of Him be linked with bird and flower and tree; let all things seen become to them the interpreters of the unseen, and all the events of life be a means of divine teaching. As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created things and in all life's experiences, show that the same laws which govern the things of nature and the events of life are to control us, that they are given for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and success.”

Mean Children Shows Law Life Is Given Study Tree Teaching Events Divine Expression Flower Lessons Bird All Things Obedience Unseen Linked True Happiness Interpreter Happiness And Success

Author:Ellen G. White

“The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens.”

Ifs Mean Important Country Bigs Happens Jobs Young Cases Clear Lessons Happenings Gains Presses China Activism Reports Young Women Autonomy Freedom Of The Press Apparel

Author:Pietra Rivoli

“A helpful hand is a lesson in sharing and if you have the means why not play your part. Those who refuse your help are foolish, as we all know appreciating the helpful hand is just smart.”

Ifs Knows Mean Play Helping Hands Lessons Smart Appreciate Refuse Foolish Helpful Why Not

Author:Julie Hebert

“My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.”

“Ultimately, I think the movie's about working as a means of finding meaning in your life. It's about the lesson, the great lesson, of just working, working and being productive.”

Thinking Mean Lessons Findings Productive

Author:David Krumholtz

“These results add up to perhaps the most important investment lesson of all that can be drawn from this week's market anniversaries: Predicting turns in the market is incredibly difficult to do consistently well. That means that, if your investment strategy going forward is dependent on your anticipating major market turning points, your chances of success are extremely low.”

Ifs Wells Mean Important Turns Difficult Chance Results Week Lessons Majors Lows Strategy Add Investment Investing Dependent Consistently Turning Points Predicting

Author:Mark Hulbert

“I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy Carter is going to be there. If Donald Trump needs a lesson in John Lewis and what he has done beyond talk, he could ask his own vice president.Mike Pence went to Selma in 2010 with John Lewis, was there on the Pettus Bridge, talked about him as somebody who has the moral authority and courage that continues to inspire millions of Americans.”

Ifs Needs Mean Done Asks President Moral Millions Inspire Trump Lessons Authority Clinton Vices Former Bridges Mike Jimmy Carter Vice President Inauguration Moral Authority

Author:Jason Chaffetz

“[Vladimir] Putin's Russia is only indirectly concerned with the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as a means of maintaining its sphere of influence. I doubt that Russia will meddle. Moreover, I'm quite sure that Ilham Aliyev won't decide to carry out any serious action - it's not in his interest. He's learned his lesson very well - threaten to take action but never act on such words.”

Wells Mean Action Interest Doubt Influence Serious Lessons Conflict Concerned Russia Spheres Maintaining Putin Armenia Sphere Of Influence Azerbaijan

Author:Garry Kasparov

“The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.”

Knows Firsts Believe Mean Lessons Senses Being True

Book:Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain

“I have learned from personal experience that putting trust in God means there will be some unanswered questions. That was a hard lesson for me because I naturally want to understand everything... to know what's going on so I can feel like I'm in control.”

Knows Want Feels Mean I Can Hard Lessons Trust In God I Have Learned Personal Experiences Unanswered Questions Unanswered Hard Lessons

Author:Joyce Meyer

“The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.”

Mean Situation Objects Lessons Models Determination

Author:James A. Baldwin

“If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.”

Ifs Way Humans Kind Mean Book Universe Courses Enjoy Ability Existence Talent Lessons Lucky Achievement Appreciate Privilege Multitudes Living Things

Book:A Short History of Nearly Everything

Source: A Short History of Nearly Everything

“I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.”

Knows World Mean Said Hard Gone This World Lessons Hardest Hard Lessons

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a polyester sheet on campfire, it takes hours to burn the heart to ash. My dear sister, a near-perfect organ! Solid, inflammable.”

Heart Mean Body Lasts Hours Perfect Lessons Survival Dear Posts Flames Organs Burned Ashes Sheets Resilient Campfire Dear Sister

Author:Ibi Kaslik

“One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.”

Mean Persons Doe Important Soul Love Is Results Opinion Lessons Expectations Independence Meaningful Your Soul Attachment Dependency Meaningful Relationship Independance

Author:Brian Weiss

“Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.”

“Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.”

People Needs Mean Said Baby Lessons Labor Witty Bossy Lesson Learned Bossypants

Book:Bossypants

Source: Bossypants

“...but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.”

Source: Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone

“I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.”

“You know why I think we still execute people? Because, even if we don't want to say it out loud-for the really heinous crimes, we want to know that there's a really heinous punishment. Simple as that. We want to bring society closer together-huddle and circle our wagons-and that means getting rid of people we think are incapable of learning a moral lesson. I guess the question is: Who gets to identify those people? And what if, God forbid, they got it wrong?”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Mean Stills Together Simple Moral Crime Lessons Circles Punishment Loud What If Incapable Wagons Heinous Crimes Moral Lessons

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a strange, deep certainty, that it must be my lot in life to be taught that lesson over and over again.”

“He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day." I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly." "Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them.”

World Mind Mean Doe Said School Left Saws Teacher Plans Mystery Lessons Normal Blow Intrigue

Author:Richelle Mead

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