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The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons… — Billy Graham
I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave… — Woody Allen
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to… — Bruce Schneier
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and… — Hubert H. Humphrey
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself. — Dale Carnegie
She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say. — Steven Herrick
The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they… — Wallace D. Wattles
I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong. — Joe E. Lewis
Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case… — Calvin Trillin
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught… — Ayn Rand
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody… — Walter E. Williams
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may… — Max Delbruck
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train… — Irving Langmuir
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. — Albert Einstein
On all levels primary, and secondary and undergraduate - mathematics is taught as an isolated subject with few, if any, ties to the real world.… — Morris Kline
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly… — G. H. Hardy
Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow.… — Sharon Salzberg
People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as… — Samuel Johnson

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