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I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught,… — Clarence Thomas
The biggest lesson I have learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you… — Dale Carnegie
But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House. — Sidney Blumenthal
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through… — Walter Gilbert
Whatever you are doing, put your whole mind on it. If you are shooting, your mind should be only on the target. Then you will… — Swami Vivekananda
Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history. — Len Deighton
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should… — Richard Baxter
I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of… — Zbigniew Herbert
I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a… — Natalie Merchant
The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach. — Frank Herbert
I had discovered long ago the first lesson of political courage: to think anew. I had then learned the second: to be prepared to lead… — Tony Blair
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter,… — Maximilien Robespierre
I struggle with enormous discrepancies: between the reality of motherhood and the image of it, between my love for my home and the need to… — Sally Mann
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its… — Grover Cleveland
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth… — Herbert Hoover
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. — John McEnroe
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all. — Pericles
A pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First,… — Warren Buffett
People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any… — Renata Adler
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and… — Kurt Vonnegut

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