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• The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or 'hypothesis-formulating' ability of unknown character and complexity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Character, Data

  Andrea Moro, Noam Chomsky, Ivano Caponigro, Daniel B. Kane (2015). “The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages”, p.37, MIT Press

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• If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

  Josh Billings

  Motivational, Believe, Ability

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• Acquire knowledge and teach it to people.

  Umar

  Inspiring, People, Teach

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• Hey Deion, Bubbelah - maybe you'd better pay a little less attention to those unfairly Draconian salary caps that only allowed you to acquire four of the five remaining 1932 Aston Martins still in road-worthy condition after you'd paid for life's little necessities like hookers and weed, get your medulla oblongata out of your duodenum for a few milliseconds, and make a tackle or two, okay, Babe?

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Weed, Two

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• Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

  Joni Mitchell

  Inspirational, Art, Things In Life

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• If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

  Cal Thomas

  Business, People, Society

  Cal Thomas (1988). “The death of ethics in America”, W Publishing Group

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• Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by the demands of his safety this must be done.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Children, Father, Responsibility

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• You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Long, Suffering, Youth

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• I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

  Amory Lovins

  Life, Intelligent, Thinking

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• What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game

  Siegbert Tarrasch

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Teaching, Science

  sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “Discourses on the Fine Arts Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy”, p.22

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• The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

  Joseph Murphy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

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• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Past, Men, Possible And Impossible

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.179, Read Books Ltd

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• I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.

  Charis Wilson

  Feelings, Body, Way

  Edward Weston, Charis Wilson (1993). “Edward Weston: nudes : his photographs accompanied by excerpts from the daybooks & letters”

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• Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Naked, World

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• It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Law, Political, Mind

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• Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Love, Best Friend, God

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.4, TAN Books

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• The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

  Honore de Balzac

  Karma, Spiritual, Memories

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.101, 谷月社

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• The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

  Joan Robinson

  Learning, Answers, Deceit

  "Marx, Marshall and Keynes" (1955)

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• For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions of the cunning and the powerful, in order to maintain or to acquire an unnatural and unjust superiority over the rest of their fellow creatures.

  Gertrude Himmelfarb

  Powerful, Order, Law

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• What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

  August Strindberg

  Order, Class, Economic Inequality

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• After you marry, every asset either of you acquires is jointly held. That's why you both need to be in sync on your long-term financial goals, from paying off the mortgage to putting away for retirement. Ideally, you should talk about all this before you wed. If you don't, you can end up deeply frustrated and financially spent.

  Suze Orman

  Retirement, Financial Goals, Long

  FaceBook post by Suze Orman from May 01, 2016

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• You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee

  John H. Vandenberg

  Life, Time, Knowledge

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• Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Soul, And Love, Doe

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• In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover the links between events that at first sight seem unconnected... For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of 'eco-system' that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Reflection

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