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Quote by William Penn
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancient

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. – William Penn

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The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. – William Penn

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He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his fathers wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his fathers care. – William Penn

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Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasnt really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think thats really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her. – Bonnie Hunt

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Its interesting when youve been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I dont know where its coming from but I am glad. – Valerie Simpson

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I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax. – Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Why dont they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. – Will Rogers

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