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Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

F. Sionil José

Gratitude, Appreciation, Art

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The probability of a fatal nuclear detonation is greater now than at any time during the Cold War. As the Russian military deteriorates, and as rogue governments and terrorists seek to acquire nuclear capabilities, the threat continues to grow.

Alan Cranston

Military, War, Government

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As long as the two nuclear superpowers maintain arsenals in the tens of thousands of nuclear warheads, there is no way they can with any consistency urge that other nations not be allowed to acquire theses weapons.

Stansfield Turner

Two, Long, Consistency

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Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction.

Joseph Brodsky

Love, Fall, Passion

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We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.

Sam Ewing

Wisdom, World, Born

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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

Benjamin Haydon

Animal, Essence, Class

Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450

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I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

Jonathan Coe

Light, Worry, Might

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You must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: the stupid, and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years time, the envious never.

Stephen Jeffreys

Stupid, Fall, Years

"The Libertine". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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You must fully understand, strongly believe in, and be totally committed to your trading philosophy. In order to achieve that mental state, you have to do a great deal of independent research. A trading philosophy is something that cannot just be transferred from one person to another; it's something that you have to acquire yourself through time and effort.

Richard Driehaus

Philosophy, Believe, Independent

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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

George Bernard Shaw

Accomplishment, Easy, Politeness

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Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

Marianne Williamson

Feminine, Willing

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In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it.

Deepak Chopra

Attachment, Order, Universe

Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.58, Amber-Allen Publishing

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This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.

Mark Akenside

Passion, Yield, Genius

Mark Akenside, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (1808). “The Works of Mark Akenside, M.D.: In Verse and Prose : with His Life, a Fac Simile of His Hand-writing, and an Essay on the First Poem”

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My own experience of over 60 years in biomedical research amply demonstrated that without the use of animals and of human beings, it would have been impossible to acquire the important knowledge needed to prevent much suffering and premature death not only among humans but also among [other] animals.

Albert Sabin

Animal, Years, Suffering

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We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only ‘naturals’ can acquire certain skills. We imagine that we have a limited budget for learning, and that different skills absorb all the effort we plough into them, without giving us anything to spend on other pursuits.

Robert Twigger

Believe, Skills, Giving

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An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want

Bob Proctor

Mind, Want, Faculty

FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 21, 2017

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The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

Michael Foley

Flower, Self, Imagination

Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.

Peter Greenaway

Religious, Atheist, Responsibility

Peter Greenaway, Vernon W. Gras (2000). “Peter Greenaway: Interviews”, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Law, Aristocracy, Decree

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 44, 1799.

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He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

Bruce Lee

Giving Up, Fighting, Suffering

Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing

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Your task?
To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.

Rumi

Passion, Light, Tasks

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Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to acquire in order to accomplish the great things ahead in our life.

Rhonda Byrne

Order, Quality, Adjusting

Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth; we understand with greater clarity what it is we want to say and what we expect from others; and we choose how to express ourselves.

Pope Benedict XVI

Ideas, Silence, Depth

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Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art, Healing, Miracle

Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

Virginia Woolf

Reading, Delight, Chiefs

Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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