Ms. HUANG: I actually remember the day because he inscribed his book to my first lesson.

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Ms. LIZ HUANG (Pianist): I remember my first lesson with him very well, which was on March 22nd, 1985.

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My first lesson on the difficulties of working as a journalist in Iran.

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I've learned my first lesson: Brand names matter.

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That was my first lesson.

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So, in my teens, I decided to take my first flying lesson in Galion, Ohio, in a Piper Cub.

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My first service and selflessness business lesson came as a complete surprise.

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My first daughter was her own kind of biology lesson, stunning in her loveliness.

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My first memory of my father giving me a premature lesson was when I was six.

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This is a parenting opportunity - and while I disagree with the father in my first link that chose to use a pistol to teach a lesson, violence generally begets violence, he is clearly trying to convey the concept of consequence.

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He must have done something right because I carried this lesson into my adult life, enabling me to buy my first piece of property before the age of 25.

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