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"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"In youth we learn; in age we understand."	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."	Umberto Eco
"Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong."	Albert Einstein
"Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness? The simple answer runs: because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it."	Albert Einstein
"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."	Albert Einstein
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school."	Albert Einstein
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."	Albert Einstein
"Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process."	Ted W. Engstrom
"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."	Epictetus
"In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most."	Epicurus
"If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn."	Ignacio Estrada
"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do."	Nan Fairbrother
"Leave well -- even 'pretty well' -- alone: that is what I learn as I get old."	Edward Fitzgerald
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Clarence Seward Darrow	Clay P. Bedford	Clive Staples Lewis
Confucius	Dame Margot Fonteyn	Dave Barry
David Havard	David P(ierpont) Gardner	Detronius Arbiter
Don Herold	Doris Lessing	Dorothy Law Nolte
Douglas Noel Adams	Dr.	Dr. David M. Burns
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Dudley Field Malone	Dwight David Eisenhower	Earl Nightingale
Edgar Watson Howe	Edmund Burke	Edward Fitzgerald
Eleanor Marx	Elias Canetti	Epictetus
Epicurus	Eric Butterworth	Eric Hoffer
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Ethel Barrymore	Ethel Perry Andrus
E(dward) E(stlin) Cummings	Franklin P. Adams	Franklin P. Jones
Frederick Chiluba	Gaius Julius Caesar	Garry Marshall
George Santayana	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gerald R. Ford
Glenda Jackson	Goldie Hawn	Hal Borland
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Hayes	Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Anatole Grunwald
Henry Brooks Adams	Herman Hesse	H.G. Wells
Horace Mann	H. Stanley Judd	Ignacio Estrada
Isha McKenzie-Mavinga	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jack William Nicklaus
Jacques Martin Barzun	James Madison	James Waddell Alexander, II
Jean de La Fontaine	Jiddu Krishnamurti	Joe Moore
John Dewey	John Calvin	John Cotton Dana
John C. Maxwell	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Fredericksen
John Gray	John Holt	John McEnroe
John Morley	John Newton	John Wood Campbell, Jr.
Joseph Chamberlain	Joseph Conrad	Joseph Joubert
Juliene Berk	Juvenal	J(ames) William Fulbright
Kabbalah	Kahlil Gibran	Ken Lancaster
Kim Hubbard	Kurt Herbert Alder	Lao-Tzu
Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonard Bernstein	Leon Lessinger
Lloyd Alexander	Lord Macaulay	Louisa May Alcott
Lucille Ball	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Madame Chiang
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margaret Mead	Maria Mitchell	Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Mark Twain	Mark McClinchie	Mark McGee
Marla Jones	Martina Horner	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maxim Gorky	May-lin Soong Chiang	Miguel de Cervantes
Morris Adler	Moshe Arens	Muhammad Ali
Nan Fairbrother	Napolean Hill	Neill MacRae
Ogden Nash	Oliver Wendell Holmes	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Orson Scott Card	Philip	Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Pierre Charron	P(hineas) T(aylor) Barnum	Rachel Louise Carson
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard Dawkins	Richard Buckminster Fuller
Richard David Bach	Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert
Robert Charles Benchley	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Lee Frost
Robyn Davidson	Roger John	Samuel Butler
Saul David Alinsky	Sir Francis Bacon	Sir John Lubbock
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Stanley Lindquist	Stephen Butler Leacock
Sybil Marshall	Sydney J. Harris	Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Ted W. Engstrom	Theodore M. Hesburgh	Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Davidson	Thomas Henry Huxley	Thomas Mann
Truman Capote	Ty Howard	Umberto Eco
Vartan Gregorian	Victor Daniels	Warren Buffett
Warren Earl Burger	Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun	William Hazlitt
William James	William Hallman	William John Bennett
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