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taught imitation depraved
We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.] Juvenal
taught women-bashing men-bashing
There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught. Coco Chanel
taught students medical
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. E. B. White
taught-us leader flags
You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing. Tom Robbins
taught-us study one-thing
If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse. Neil Gaiman
taught virtue
Is virtue something that can be taught? Plato
taught-us mind paper
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind. Mark Twain
taught team winning
She taught me that winning as a team is more important than winning as an individual. It's all about the team. Kelsey Jakupcin
taught technique mathematics
[P]ure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics. G. H. Hardy
technique moments terrorist
A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment. Donald Rumsfeld
technique energy body
The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body... Chuck Norris
technique poet caught
An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing. Stanley Kunitz
technique used protect
I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files Wen Ho Lee
mathematics
A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. Georg Cantor
mathematics unlimited
More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited. Russell Hoban