"Lessons are not given, they are taken." — Cesare Pavese

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• I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated… — Chinua Achebe
• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great… — Abigail Adams
• Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. — Jean Baudrillard
• As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of… — Bob Beauprez
• The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where… — Marek Belka
• I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the… — Benazir Bhutto
• The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to… — Henry Bolingbroke
• The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. — Spiro T. Agnew
• In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops… — Lakhdar Brahimi
• Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain.… — James Caan
• A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of… — Muhammad Ali
• The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. — Noam Chomsky

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