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Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. – anonymous	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards. – Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards. – Vernon Law	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience. – George Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them. – Stanley Lindquist	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be. – Peter McWilliams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. – Warren Bennis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves. – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it. – Austin Powers International Man of Mystery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children. – Bill Cosby	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. – A Bartlett Giamatti	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. – Phyllis Bottome	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered. – David Ashley Brewer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. – Anita Brookner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. – Richard Dawkins	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach. – Edgar Albert Guest	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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