Acquire Quotes
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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.
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In order to obtain any joint statement at all, the U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill shifted from the Bush administration's 'never-again' position to one of avowing 'respect' for North Korea regaining its sovereign right to acquire light-water reactor technology and to discuss such provision at an 'appropriate' time.
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If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
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To the extent societal rules or the wiring of your brains make it easy to acquire a lot of assets, then to the extent you can, you should try to improve the world.
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A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.
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Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
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No one's ready for a thing, until they believe that they can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief and not mere hope or wish.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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To acquire style, begin by affecting none.
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The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.
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....those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
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Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have.
