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• I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

  Mark Twain

  Should Have, Ideas, Hinduism

  Mark Twain (1925). “The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.]”

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• To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.

  J. Edward Day

  Wealth, Difficult, Preserves

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• If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example will be set, which can not but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind.

  James Madison

  Gratitude, Freedom, Character

  Jonathan Elliot, James Madison, United States. Constitutional Convention (1836). “The debates in the several state conventions on the adoption of the Federal Constitution, as recommended by the general convention at Philadelphia in 1787: Together with the Journal of the Federal convention, Luther Martin's letter, Yates's minutes, Congressional opinions, Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of '98-'99, and other illustrations of the Constitution”, p.131

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• You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Country, Study, Language

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Cheating, Real

  Benjamin Franklin (1819). “Memoirs of the life and writings of B.F. ...”, p.60

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• Anything you have to acquire a taste for was not meant to be eaten.

  Eddie Murphy

  Writing, Were Not Meant To Be, Taste

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• No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Believe, Think And Grow Rich

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.34, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Motivational, Attitude

  "How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part IV".

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• Satisfaction, for us, is only a brief thing. The man who acquires wealth does not reach a point where he has enough. Success for us is more like acceleration than speed. Interest cannot be maintained at a constant level.

  Neal Asher

  Men, Levels, Satisfaction

  Neal Asher (2009). “The Skinner”, p.83, Pan Macmillan

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• We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.

  Darrel Ray

  Religious, Children, Emotional

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• I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  I Realized

  "Lupita Nyong’o’s speech on ‘black beauty’ underscores her significance in Hollywood" by Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2014.

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• No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully you
  cultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquire
  and which you are not going to receive through revelation.

  Rex E. Lee

  Needs, Matter, Ghost

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• The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive.

  Darius Milhaud

  Writing, Self, Secret

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• Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.

  Angela Davis

  Girl, Meaningful, Baby

  Angela Y. Davis (2011). “Women, Culture & Politics”, p.26, Vintage

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• We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations that that object embodies - and were important to the production of that object whether it’s our food or our clothes or our I-pads or all the materials we use to acquire an education at an institution like this. That would really be revolutionary to develop a habit of imagining the human relations and non human relations behind all of the objects that constitute our environment.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Ipads, Clothes

  "Grace Lee Boggs in Conversation with Angela Davis". www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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• We do know, with absolute certainty, that Saddam Hussein is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.

  Dick Cheney

  Order, Weapons, Needs

  "Threat by Iraq Grows, U.S. Says" by Robin Wright, articles.latimes.com. September 09, 2002.

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• All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Teacher, Skills, Challenges

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• Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline

  James Truslow Adams

  Discipline, Age, Aging

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• Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension.

  Fred Hoyle

  Future, Taken, Emotional

  Fred Hoyle (1960). “The nature of the universe”

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• Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, God, Animal

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 49, 1799.

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• What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

  E. V. Lucas

  Dog, Lying, Legs

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• The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.

  Thomas Paine

  Philosophy, Teaching, School

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.197

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• When you catch on to your awakening, the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality. A feeling of divine bliss, so to speak, when things no longer have the power to affect you.

  Robert Adams

  Feelings, World, Awakening

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• In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Individual, Duty

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1958). “Philosophy of right”

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• From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

  Polybius

  Judging, Serious, Study

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