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• To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.

  Joseph Pilates

  Strong, Accomplishment, Healthy

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• Acquire wisdom from the story of those who have already passed.

  Uthman ibn Affan

  Stories

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• Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse.

  Joseph Prince

  Jesus, Careers, Giving

  Joseph Prince (2011). “Unmerited Favor: Your Supernatural Advantage for a Successful Life”, p.308, Charisma Media

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• I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Motto

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• In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Thinking, Profound, Development

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• If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

  Lamar Trotti

  Wise, Razors, Enough

  "Fictional character: Larry Darrell". "The Razor's Edge", www.imdb.com. 1946.

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• Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Swimming

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• Acquire knowledge, and learn tranquility and dignity.

  Umar

  Dignity, Tranquility

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• And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Independent, Omnipotence

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Thinking, Long, People

  Gabrielle Zevin (2014). “The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel”, p.251, Algonquin Books

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• The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

  Hillary Clinton

  Differences, Making A Difference, Way

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• I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps.

  Sigrid Undset

  Education, Father, School

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• You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing.

  Irene Sharaff

  Style, Elegance, Chic

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• The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

  Spider Robinson

  Reality, Psychosis, Patterns

  "Lady Slings the Booze". Book by Spider Robinson, 1992.

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• It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

  Adyashanti

  Christian, Buddhist, Teaching

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• Listen to your beliefs, think about how you learned them, and realize that they are not genetic, nor are they the "only way." You are free to acquire new perspectives, to absorb new ideas, and to question everything you were taught to believe. As your mind opens to exploration and change, you'll feel a new lightness and more joy.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

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• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Modesty, Repeats

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• Here is one of the best means to acquire humility; fix well in mind this maxim: One is as much as he is in the sight of God, and no more.

  Francis of Assisi

  Mean, Humility, Sight

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• You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

  Pope Gregory I

  Christian, Anger, Lord

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• God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

  Rumi

  Life, Heart, Eye

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• If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

  Richard Livingstone

  Children, School, Ideas

  Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make clear. The argument against reason in this literature is straightforward: it is impossible for any individual to acquire enough reliable information to make a rational decision, any actions founded on rational thought will therefore be delusional, any attempts at reason should therefore regarded as dangerous, and all action should instead be guided by tradition.

  Philip E. Agre

  Philosophy, Decision, Literature

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• Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Love, Spiritual, Light

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.176, Image

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• Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

  John Berger

  Envy, Culture, Satisfaction

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• Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

  Isaac Watts

  Ideas, Government, Over You

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