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• Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

  W. H. Auden

  Children, Hero, History

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• A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire a glorious past just as he acquires antique furniture. By that past he is reassured of his present importance; in it he finds strength to face the dangers that lie in front of him.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Lying, Past, Men

  MALCOLM COWLEY (1967). “Think Back on Us”

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• In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Order, Intelligence

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• Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

  Karl Popper

  Education, Real, Careers

  Karl R. Popper (2013). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

  Saadi

  Inspirational, Educational, Knowledge

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• You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Knowledge, Delay, Height

  Desiderius Erasmus (1974). “The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1 to 141, 1484-1500”, p.114, University of Toronto Press

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• To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Art, Money, Valor

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Forgiveness, Peace

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• This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Attitude, Mind, Religion

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.286, Princeton University Press

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• If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Educational, Teaching

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

  Charlie Munger

  Change, Learning, Ideas

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• The measure of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mean, Power, Men

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• Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

  Mark Van Doren

  Knowledge, Skills, Use

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• Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial picture, worry about investments, and plan how to acquire more and more. It is a universal principle which you are part of. You must release everything when you truly awaken. Are you letting your life go by in frustration and worry over not having enough? If so, relax and remember that you only get what you have for a short period of time. When you awaken you will see the folly of being attached to anything.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Frustration, Attachment

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• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

  Confucius

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

  Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.

  H. L. Mencken

  Teacher, Determination, School

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.260, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

  Og Mandino

  Failure, Despair, Tools

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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• I honestly believe that if you are willing to out-condition the opponent, have confidence in your ability, be more aggressive than your opponent and have a genuine desire for team victory, you will become the national champions. If you have all the above, you will acquire confidence and poise, and you will have those intangibles that win the close ones.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Encouraging, Team

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• The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

  James E. Faust

  Spiritual, Humble, Burning

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• A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down.

  Ernst Mayr

  Character, Science, Population

  Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, p.442, Harvard University Press

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• Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Science, Perfect

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• The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Strong, Capitalist Economy, Desire

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist”, p.336, VM eBooks

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• A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Men, Water

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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• Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Doe, Needs

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• My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

  John McCain

  Real, Greatest Fear, Organization

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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