#instruction

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

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The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

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I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration. ↗

— Timothy Leary

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It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency. ↗

— George C. Marshall

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Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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