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In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

Amy Chua

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The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

Catherine Helen Spence

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Daily repetition matters when a kid is learning to swim. It can be 20 minutes in a lesson or an hour practicing for a couple of weeks.

Summer Sanders

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The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

Alan Stern

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The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

Voltaire

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The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the lesson that womanhood is valuable.

Rumaan Alam

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For me, 'The Hobbit' is an object lesson in storytelling, both in terms of characterization and story structure. It is an exemplar of storytelling in that regard.

Paul S. Kemp

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It's a bit of a history lesson, being an actor. I was in 'Burnt By The Sun' at the National, which was set in Stalinist Russia, so I discovered all about that. You learn so much as you go along.

Michelle Dockery

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I've learned the lesson that when you're in the middle of something that seems overwhelming, or you're in a bad situation and it seems like it's the end of the world or whatever, then you learn that it's not.

Lee Ann Womack

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I did things like get in a cupboard before the teacher came in at the beginning of a lesson, and then, two minutes before the end of the class, I come out of the cupboard and go, 'Sorry I'm late.'

Miranda Hart

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It'll be all of our efforts together. It won't won't ever be exactly the way I imagined it. And that is, I think, an important lesson as well, is that in any group enterprise it's going to be the sum total of the group.

James Cameron

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Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

Loretta Lynch

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I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

George Clooney

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I learned a lesson which I didn't heed: Don't put yourself in your movies. It's too much.

Josh Radnor

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One lesson is that if you want to predict voter turnout, you should ask whether at least one candidate is attracting high levels of enthusiasm - not whether the stakes are high, or even perceived to be high. That fits the historical pattern.

Cass Sunstein

EnthusiasmYouLessonWantPredict

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

Diane Sawyer

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Some people come into our life as a blessing, while others come into our life as a lesson, so love them for who they are instead of judging them for who they are not.

Yolanda Hadid

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Obama better understood community organisation and peer-to-peer communication than any recent candidate, and we are applying that lesson.

Douglas Alexander

CommunicationCommunityBetterLesson

The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

Sam Abell

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I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

David Weinberger

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Orison Swett Marden

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History's lesson is to make the most of reform opportunities when they arise because they do not arise often and they do not last long.

Christopher Bond

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In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.

Mahathir Mohamad

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