Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Quotes
We shall not … begin this logic by definitions, axioms, or principles; we shall begin by observing the lessons which nature gives us.
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My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Nancy Kerrigan
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who
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The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde
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History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
James A. Leach
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When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I didn't know where that came from because I had never skated and none of her friends had either.
Angela Davis
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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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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Louis Fischer
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
Oprah Winfrey
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It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.
Liam Fox
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Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
Erykah Badu
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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
Erykah Badu
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I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.
Marc Singer
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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 responsibility for the state of the human conscience.
Zbigniew Herbert
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I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.
Artie Shaw
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
Marian Wright Edelman
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As children in the seventies we were told about nebulous 'strangers'. By definition, we didn't know who these strangers were, and we didn't know what they wanted to do, but only that they were sinister. I think that was the stage the seventies were at.
Quentin S. Crisp
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When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.
Evelyn Glennie
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You learn more in failure than you ever do in success
Jay-Z
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The summer,' Randy explained. 'I'm going to appreciate it. I'm going to walk in the woods noticing everything, and ride my bike on all the roads I never explored. I'm going to fill a pillow with ladies' tobacco so I can smell it in January and remember about August. I'm going to dry a big bunch of pennyroyal so I can break pieces off all winter and think of summer. I'm going to look at everything, and smell everything, and listen to everything so I'll never forget.
Elizabeth Enright
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We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.
Elliott Colla
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We shall not … begin this logic by definitions, axioms, or principles; we shall begin by observing the lessons which nature gives us.
Etienne Bonnot de Condillac