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From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

Joseph Addison

Life, Exercise, Ideas

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The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

Ayn Rand

Education, Home, School

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.154, Penguin

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I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.

Jacques Barzun

Book, Writing, Learning

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The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.

Hayley Mills

Running, Learning, Errors

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The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Jeremy Bentham

Animal, Rights, Hands

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ch. 17 (1789)

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Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or have, and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions, achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire evidence of your importance... On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within you. ...with imagination, we have the power to be anything we desire to be.

Wayne Dyer

Believe, Hands, Imagination

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That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

Meister Eckhart

Love, Men, Contemplation

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In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.

Chris Guillebeau

Long, Mind Your Own Business, Assets

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The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Jim Rohn

Goal, Mind Your Own Business, Reaching

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The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.

Eric Butterworth

Goal, Energy, Needs

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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Xunzi

Teacher, Nature, People

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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

Helen Keller

Children, Distance, Fall

Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

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Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

William Lyon Phelps

Wall, Lying, Real

"A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

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If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?

Pope Pius XII

Work, Men, Sobriety

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It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

Baltasar Gracian

Excellent, Devices

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Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Transcendentalism, Instinct

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

Paul Keres

Hard Work, Technique, World

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If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Mikhail Botvinnik

Games, Training, Chess

Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.

Spiros Zodhiates

Life, Real, Perspective

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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Player, Air

'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. 1

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Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Inspirational, Education, Maturity

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A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.

Cullen Hightower

Integrity, Mind, Handle

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When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

Wayne Dyer

Positive, Peace, Self Esteem

Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Bertrand Russell

Believe, Numbers, People

Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.425, Psychology Press

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Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

Swami Vivekananda

Men, Self, Consciousness

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Powers of The Mind”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

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