The entire Internet, as well as the types of devices represented by the desktop computer, the laptop computer, the iPhone, the iPod, and the iPad, are a continuing inescapable embarrassment to science fiction, and an object lesson in the fallibility of genre writers and their vaunted predictive abilities.
Paul Di Filippo
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Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.
Michael Symon
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
Lee Iacocca
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The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.
Loretta Devine
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When I was a boy, I had a baseball team of my own. We played on a vacant lot between Ninetieth and Ninety-second streets. I had a little menagerie of my own, some pigeons, guinea pigs, and so on. On Saturday mornings, I had to take my music lesson. Then the members of my team used to come see my menagerie.
Jacob Ruppert
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Hopefully I'm learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.
Jason Aaron
LearningLessonNewWriteGuys
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.
Ismail Haniyeh
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Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.
Jon Heder
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Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.
Edwin Meese
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Douglas Coupland
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
Victoria Clark
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What is crucial in dealing with loss is not to lose the lesson. That makes you a winner in the most profound sense.
Dayananda Saraswati
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No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.
R. J. Cutler
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In my years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator, I learned an important fundamental lesson: Hostage negotiation is often nothing more than a business transaction.
Christopher Voss
BusinessNegotiationLessonImportant
The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.
Oliver North
MottoWarMindRememberLessonNeed
That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.
Clare Short
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The biggest lesson I learned in 2017 is do the best with what you have with where you are.
Maddie Marlow
BestYouLessonWhereLearned
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.
Bruce Catton
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
Kara Swisher
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Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.
Ava DuVernay
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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
Florence Nightingale
ImprovementLessonImportantKind
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
Damian Lewis
FocusYouLessonSometimesHand
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
Pawel Pawlikowski
GoodWisdomArtMeYouLesson
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