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Learning Quotes by Doris Lessing
- In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That…
- When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful and so reduced,…
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