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Learning Quotes
"I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning."
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"When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it."
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"Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer from siderodromophobia. Having misgivings about your mother-in-law is pentheraphobia, and being petrified of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia. And then there's Franklin Delano Roosevelt's affliction, the fear of fear itself, or phobophobia."
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"All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them."
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"He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet."
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"Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning."
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"Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one."
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"Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book."
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"Proper researching is arguably half the quest. Not knowing the right direction to travel in, makes the journey a lot harder than it is."
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"I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why."
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"Good books are for consideration after, too."
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"Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden). The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one." ... It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision - it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude."
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"A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard."
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"The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated."
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"Mr. Polly went into the National School at six and he left the private school at fourteen, and by that time his mind was in much the same state that you would be in, dear reader, if you were operated upon for appendicitis by a well-meaning, boldly enterprising, but rather over-worked and under-paid butcher boy, who was superseded towards the climax of the operation by a left-handed clerk of high principles but intemperate habits,-that is to say, it was in a thorough mess."
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"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place."
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"To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages."
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"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
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"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."
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"For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table."
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"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
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"We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible."
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"You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel."
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"Developing your voice takes... time and practice."
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"I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old."
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"Reading, writing, and personal introspection will not protect us from hardship and suffering, but they might introduce us to critical thinking and expose us to what is good in humankind and beautiful in the world that we share with all of nature. Contemplative thought, especially that supplemented with reading literature and attempting to write our own replies to the echoing voices of writers whom preceded us provide us with the potentiality for change, the possibility of personal illumination that enables us to experience a heighted quality of life."
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"Those who lack experience always have a lot of ideas."
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"Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on."
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