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Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

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That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

Richard Bach, "The Bridge Across Forever"

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A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Mark Twain

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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

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Intrinsic motivation is one of learning's most precious resources. It bolsters us to stick out the tough moments of a challenge and pursue what we love to do.

Rachel Simmons

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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

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What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

Elizabeth Olsen

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Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Jim Rohn

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

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At fifteen my heart was set on learning; at thirty I stood firm; at forty I had no more doubts; at fifty I knew the mandate of heaven; at sixty my ear was obedient; at seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing the norm.

Confucius

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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to.

Confucius

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I learned one thing about eating jigsaw puzzles... An hour later, you're hungry again.

"ALF"

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You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius

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I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

Alex Trebek

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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Warren Bennis

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

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If I'm in the car after a bad game, I may think about ways I need to improve. But the second I reach home, the game's over. Work doesn't come inside with me. Same thing in reverse — I don't bring my personal life into the ballpark. Learning to keep it all separate has made life easier.

Matt Kemp

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There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Michael J. Fox

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I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.

Justin Trudeau

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