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Friedrich Nietzsche

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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live and learn

[live and learn] You learn more new things the longer you live; you learn by experience. - A proverb. * /"Live and learn," said Mother. "I never knew that the […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

(1770-1831), German philosopher We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. www.english-slang.com

stand the gaff

[stand the gaff] {v. phr.}, {informal} To stand rough treatment; do well in spite of great physical or mental hardship. * /An athlete must learn to stand the gaff./ * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

learn by rote

[learn by rote] {v. phr.} To blindly memorize what was taught without thinking about it. * /If you learn a subject by rote, it will be difficult to say anything […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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"very informal usage in vocabulary and idiom that is characteristically more metaphorical, playful, elliptical, vivid and ephemeral than ordinary language" (Random House Unabridged Dictionary) - learn ~600 slang expressions

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an expression "whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements… or from the general grammatical rules of a language"

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George Daacon

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?

Xerox Subsidy

[Xerox Subsidy] Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

get the brush-off

[get the brush-off] {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To be paid no attention; not be listened to or thought important. * /My idea for a […]

mouth

[mouth] See: [BORN WITH A SILVER SPOON IN ONE'S MOUTH], [BUTTER WOULDN'T MELT IN ONE'S MOUTH], [BY WORD OF MOUTH], [DOWN […]

bottom line

[bottom line] {v.}, {informal} (stress on "bottom") To finish; to bring to a conclusion. * /Okay, you guys, let's bottom line […]

dot the i's and cross the t's

[dot the i's and cross the t's] {v. phr.} To be careful, thorough, and pay close attention to detail. * /"The best way to […]

Woody Allen

(1935- ) in Without Feathers, 1975 U.S. comediandirector I don't want to achieve immortality through my work...I want to […]