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My wife is beginning to instruct me on means to retrieve dreams, and bit by bit, it does seem to be working. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions. ↗

— Jason Ritter

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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please. ↗

— Robert Chambers

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Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies. ↗

— John Gresham Machen

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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. ↗

— Leopold Von Ranke

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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed. ↗

— Noah Webster

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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