Yet, while some people respond immediately to this new lesson, most people, as they find it outside their past experience, do not believe it.
We can only hope that the new Treasury Secretary has learned a lesson in accountability, and that he has a new appreciation for the complications of our insane tax code.
One hopes that Twitter--and text-message costs--can teach a new generation the same lesson.
The lesson for New York should be clear, but continues to be obscured in the disinformational fog generated by these activist groups.
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For the New Democrats, the lesson of Clintonism is that the policies behind it embracing fiscal discipline, signing welfare reform not only win elections but produce huge gains in growth and public welfare.
One afternoon, Lauren's class was building cardboard and construction-paper models of New York landmarks, a lesson that leads up to the challenge of building 3-D models in the computer.
The other is that losses need to be claimed at the earliest reasonable time to avoid being whipsawed by the IRS. The business lesson is a new evaluation technique.
Again the national security strategy proposes a new departure, again a lesson learnt from recent conflicts ranging from Rwanda and Bosnia to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia: to create a standby international civilian capability so that for fragile and failing states we can act quickly and comprehensively by combining the humanitarian, peacekeeping, stabilisation and reconstruction support they need.
That's the biggest lesson taught by the new-media crisis of 1949.
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The lesson here is anything new will be derided.
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At the heart of almost all of these issues is the problem of scale: of finding ways to make high-quality educational resources--whether it's brilliant teachers, innovative lesson plans or inspiring new teaching methods--reach not just a handful of students in a single classroom but hundreds of millions of students around the globe.
The lesson they drew from this new revelation was, however, an entirely different matter.
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But the lesson of history is that new technologies tend to be most comfortably adopted by new companies.
Craig Lucas' gentle new comedy, "The Lying Lesson, " opened Wednesday night in an intriguing world premiere, presented off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theater Company.
And that points to one broad lesson from the emergence of this new group.
Our plan was to get there in time for the free group lesson, then to use our new skills to dance the night away.
Other cities, such as New York and Chicago, have learned an encouraging lesson in recent years: reforms that make cities more attractive feed on themselves.
In the age where Twitter encourages us to speed it up, tweet every hour or half hour, it is quantity not quality that begins to overrun the blogosphere- a lesson applicable to even businesses that begin new blogs of their own.
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Sally Potter, director of the new top-10 film, "The Tango Lesson", can surely attest to that.
But then the legal fraternity decided to move in and teach us all an abject lesson about the state of Israeli democracy as new military threats multiply by the day.
Mr Grayling said the fact the Conservatives got a boost in some opinion polls after David Cameron vetoed plans for a new European treaty in December should be a "big lesson" for the party.
Mr. DERSHOWITZ: The lesson is clear, we cannot depend upon the new German Republic or any German democratic group to clean house.
Lesson learned: Get familiar with the culture of your new workplace to avoid rubbing your colleagues the wrong way.
Consequently, I propose that from here out we need to come together in a bipartisan fashion -- as a lesson to our dysfunctional Congress -- and stop with New Year's wishes after the first seven days of the year.
The lesson for France's top politicians should not be a new one.
The second lesson ZombiU gives you is when you wake up as a new survivor in the mysterious safe house you were attempting to reach moments ago as someone else.
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It's a lesson that other marketers are undoubtedly heeding as they deal with a new world order of blogs, message boards and interactive ad campaigns, which has accelerated the word-of-mouth effect on consumer products.
As we can see, President Hollande is doing the French and their government's coffers a disservice with the introduction of his new top rate of tax -- and that ought to be a salutary lesson for anyone seeking to emulate it elsewhere.
Lesson three for government: A healthy economy requires low barriers to starting new businesses.
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