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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

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

— Cathy Rigby

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

— Max Muller

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Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. ↗

— Jean Kerr

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We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. ↗

— Charles Kettering

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The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work. ↗

— Charles Kettering

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A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

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One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. ↗

— Merle Shain

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