Sentences with phrase «history teaches us another thing»

At the international level, history teaches us another thing: The more countries trade with each other, the less likely they are to end up at war.

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I once got into a very polite conversation — tour guides don't argue with guests — with a nice but unyielding tourist who said, «You have to go into teaching because that's the only thing to do with a history major.»

As history teaches us, it is one thing to deceive the press and quite another to do so under oath.

Buddhism (in its true form) provides a guide to the elimination of suffering, not deity worship; in fact never talks about God or gods in the sense the west does... FYI Buddha was born 630 years before Jesus, and it is proven that Buddhism traveled from eastern India all the way to Syria and the Middle East via the Silk Road... i am quite sure Jesus had heard some of his teachings... some of the things that Jesus says are a direct reflection of the eightfold path from buddhism... Jesus was the greatest salesman of all time... sold the most books in history... he really honestly does nt deserve worship but an Academy Award

They claim it's a life changing experience, that their god is so powerful yet history has repeatedly shown it does no such thing because let's face it if they truly followed the teachings of their Christ, this world and specifically America would be a very different place.

But the genealogies also can teach us things about God, about ourselves, and about what God is doing in history.

He was definitely a nonconformist in a lot of ways (the things he said and taught were pretty radical), though he was also the biggest conformist in all of history if you think about him being the only person to perfectly abide by the law and conform to the pattern of humanity as God originally intended.

And while the new «social history,» which wants to do history from the bottom up, has taught us many things, there are still occasions when great men do bend history's curve in a different direction; Liberating a Continent is also a useful reminder of that.

I know there are a lot of things I was taught in history class as a young child that the school «left out» very important facts.

«I know that most Christians throughout church history have taught that this passage means one thing, but last night God showed me what it really means.»

One thing history surely teaches is that when old ideas die, others rush in to fill the vacuum.

However history remembers Pope Benedict, one thing is assured: his reign will be remembered as one of the great teaching pontificates.

And if history has taught us nothing else, the best possible thing to do to a perfect trilogy is keep milking it for more money.

But if the moral laws of the past can be understood in a new way, not as prescriptions to be followed but as values that the wisdom of history provides, then perhaps the old moralists can still teach the new moralists some important things.

Colin Hart, chief executive of the institute, accused the government overreacting, on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «You may or may not agree with it, but one thing you can't do is sue the school over the way in which history is taught or maths is taught or whatever subject there is, because the law excludes discrimination from the content of the curriculum, but that's to change for independent schools, free schools and academies»

Among other things, I teach American Church History.

This program is a one day tour of Temecula that includes transportation and lunch along with venue tours that will teach you top things to do in our valley, Temecula history and much more.

A period of history that teaches us that when we come together in a spirit of ambition and innovation, we have it within ourselves to do great things.

One thing history has taught us is that populations and societies shift to fewer births, once they see infant mortality rates decline.

One of the things I teach in my class is that the history of science is the history of confusion, and there are many, many confusions.

You could also grab an extra copy for your kids (girls or boys) if you want to teach them a thing or two about women's history.

It's hard to imagine athletes hitting the stage looking even fuller and more conditioned than current top - three placers like Jeremy Buendia, Sadik Hadzovic, or Jason Poston, but if history has taught us one thing — and feel free to draw a line from Larry Scott to Phil Heath — bodies will always get better.

I also do research during my free time I love enhancing my knowledge about things that aren't taught in school such as aliens, Conspiracy theories, history that has been fabricated.

On the other hand, Delpit provides counterexamples of success, for instance, Afrocentric assignments, inspiring teachers who love and sympathize but maintain rigor, and a beloved white teacher whom the students consider «black» for this reason: when asked «how he felt as a white man teaching black history... tears came to his eyes as he answered that when he learned about Emmett Till and other terrible things white people had done to black people, it sometimes made him ashamed to be white.»

Compiled from personal experience but also academic research, the list is not exhaustive but provides a framework for some of the things those teaching History in the UK might do on a day to day basis.

History has taught us many things.

Over time, history teaches us that bad things don't last forever.

But he hadn't peddled avocados for thirty years on the South Water Street Market without learning a thing or two about life, and Helen, his wife, had practiced all her lectures on him when she'd started teaching art history at Edgar Lee Masters, dropping her slides one at a time into the projector on the dining room table, the front...

«I could teach you for two weeks about the history of American comic art form, and you'd know more about all those things,» he said.

They can engage in fancy strategies where they try to remove policy accommodation either through rates or the size of the balance sheet, but one thing Fed history teaches us is that the Fed doesn't know what will happen when a tightening cycle starts, but usually it ends with a bang — some market blowing up.

For if there is one thing history teaches us about moral progress, it is this: that thanks to the dreamers, what is regarded as «impossible» by one generation becomes inevitable to the next.

The free walking tours will take you all around the city, teaching you key Quechua history and cultural facts, and helping you plan a few things to do in Cusco in the coming days.

Students are taught the basics of surfing, use of equipment, surfboard maintenance, ocean safety, history of surfing and technical things.

Student credit cards are generally good for only two things: teaching young people to use credit, and helping them establish a credit history so they'll be able to qualify for other types of loans in the future.

One of the things I love about Assassin's Creed is how it teaches players about history while tying real - world events into the narrative.

And if history has taught us one thing, it is that with great power and wealth, comes great art.

The premise of the show is to bring out subaltern histories, things that are not taught in our textbooks, that exist but haven't been always named.

I know one thing — MacGregor's liberal history of cultural encounters and global diversity, which he communicates through books and radio as well as British Museum's displays, has taught people a lot more about global art than anyone will learn from Campbell's film.

As a Canadian in New York for the past four years, Jen Hoyer helps make things go at Interference Archive and teaches about local history at the Brooklyn Public Library.

The last thing the United States needs, considering the challenges we face — from getting a handle on financial complexity to tracking the gigawatts and gigatons involved in the energy and climate challenge — is mathematics taught as dusty history.

Four years of undergraduate work would be enough to provide a healthy grounding in legal theory, legal history, aspects of justice, all the things that law schools now teach, in a mixture with Torts and Contracts and Business Associations and so forth.

Windows with its DirectX APIs basically has a 20 - year head start, but if there's one thing that Apple's history teaches, it's that they move quickly and the most valuable company in the world will have little problem throwing its considerable weight (and money) behind it and attracting big - name titles.

If history has taught us one thing, it is that every revolution is eventually commercialized.