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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. ↗

— Prince Charles

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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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In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice. ↗

— Ali A. Saleh

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Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ↗

— Edgar R. Fiedler

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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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