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Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience. -- Ben Bernanke
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk. -- James Surowiecki
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. -- Carl T. Rowan
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. -- Elie Wiesel
Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs. -- Wendy Kopp
I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles. -- Mikaela Shiffrin
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package. -- Chaske Spencer
With the '39 Clues,' we were making history jump out of the page for the readers, so they don't know they're learning. The kids can't put the books down - it's so exciting. -- Peter Lerangis
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. -- Ken Burns
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. -- David Hume
There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens. -- Antony Gormley
I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky. -- Jane Goodall
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories. -- Ron Rash
Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange. -- Liane Moriarty
I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on 'Jerry Springer.' It was really gaudy. -- Steve Wilkos
I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another. -- Stephen Daldry
It's great to work with people who are jobbing actors at different stages of their career, and learning from them, and getting over being star-struck by somebody like Ian McKellen because he has such a long prestigious history in the business, but then seeing how he works on the camera; you never stop learning. -- William Kircher
Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities. -- George Nethercutt
When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds. -- David Hallberg
The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization. -- Beryl Smalley
Why are we learning about the past, when this is History? -- Galinda Glinda
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult. -- Nicolas Bentley
America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record -- Alfonso Soriano
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology. -- Michael Rostovtzeff
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Well, I'm a history buff, anyway. I love learning about different periods, especially in American history. I'm a fan. -- William Sadler
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. -- Rumi
I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people. -- Warren Mundine
The traditional Sanskrit learning has given to Brahaman community of Kashmir, small as it has been always, a distinguished place in the history of Sanskrit literature since early times. -- Aurel Stein
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. -- Walt Disney

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