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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #32

From childbirth education class, many years ago: Fatigue makes EVERYTHING worse.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #27

Questions are almost always more interesting than answers. Questions open up possibilities; answers do the opposite.

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #15

Hegel was right: “We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #10

Ideology is what humans use to justify to ourselves doing things we know are wrong. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said this in The Gulag Archipelago)

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #6

Oliver Loud, a professor at Antioch College, said, “Learning is the creative use of error.” That’s why learning often comes out of painful experience, but also why creativity can change everything!

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Lessons I’ve learned the hard way #2

Character matters vastly more than politics.

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