#learns

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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Every German child learns to speak English in school. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#english #every #german #learns #school

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#generation #god #knows #learns #nobody

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy. ↗

— Jet Li

#action films #arts #back #bad #bad guy

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce. ↗

— Friedrich List

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He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#behavior #believing #civilized #control #crop

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#breath #her #hold #how #learn

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. ↗

— Max Muller

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