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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.
— Joyce Meyer
Convictions are lessons learned from experiences we'd never want to go through again, but wouldn't trade for anything in the world.
— Mark Batterson
The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.
— George Lucas
God constantly uses the lives of Bible characters to teach us, to encourage us, to warn us.
— Charles Swindoll
Everything that happens to me is designed to better prepare me for serving others, everything!
— Charles Swindoll
Whitefolks said he was a witch doctor, but they said that so they wouldn't have to say he was smart. A hunter's hunter that's what he was. Smart as they come. Taught me two lessons I lived by all my life. One was the secret of kindness from white people —they had to pity a thing before they could like it. The other--- oh well, I forgot it." Joe Trace
— Toni Morrison
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
— Anonymous
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.
— Rowan Williams
There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
— Paulo Coelho
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
— Edmund Burke