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Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions.

Roberto Assagioli

Perspective, Age, Helping

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A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

Italo Calvino

Feelings, Intuition, Ephemeral

Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter . . . . That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters . . .

Ayn Rand

Mean, Ideas, People

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.104, Penguin

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Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

Bill Russell

Education, Believe, Learning

Bill Russell, David Falkner (2001). “Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner”, p.70, Penguin

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Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

J. M. E. McTaggart

Death, Sleep, Progress

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The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.

William McKinley

Humanity, Flags, Territory

William McKinley's remarks on 1900 US campaign poster of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, July 12, 1900.

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Shamanism is a path of knowledge, not of faith, and that knowledge cannot come from me or anyone else in this reality. To acquire that knowledge, including the knowledge of the reality of the spirits, it is necessary to step through the shaman's doorway and acquire empirical evidence.

Michael Harner

Reality, Doorways, Path

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History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

Philibert Joseph Roux

Men, Historical, Age

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He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

Zoroaster

Religious, Prayer, Care

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The majority work to make a living; some work to acquire wealth or fame, while a few work because there is something within them which demands expression...Only a few truly love it.

Edmond Bordeaux Szekely

Work, Expression, Majority

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Generally the officers of the army were indifferent whether the annexation [of Texas] was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For myself, I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an instance of a republic following the bad example of European monarchies, in not considering justice in their desire to acquire additional territory.

Ulysses S. Grant

War, Army, Texas

Ulysses S. Grant (2013). “The Personal Memoirs of General U. S.”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way.

Oprah Winfrey

Letting Go, Desire, Way

Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.179, Macmillan

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In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

Deepak Chopra

Wisdom, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

Lysander Spooner

Men, Rights, Self

Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.

Dorothea Dix

Men, Use, Hours

Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.11

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If you believe it and desire it, you can acquire it.

Robert G. Allen

Believe, Desire, Ifs

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Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.

C. S. Lewis

Two, Combination, Meaningless

C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Inspiring, Education, Men

Henry Ward Beecher (1875). “The Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons Preached in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Mark Twain

Mother, Knees, Ideals

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

Frederic Chopin

Music, Men, Listening

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My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30 miles per hour for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour. Current events show this is not at all an ambitious project. Want of an elementary knowledge of oil machines baulks me and causes much misdirected effort. I doubt my ability to acquire that knowledge, and feel like a fireman trying to hew out a donkey pump.

Lawrence Hargrave

Adventure, Years, Oil

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Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

Leonardo da Vinci

Animal, Men, Perfect

Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.188, GENERAL PRESS

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No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch.

Richard Dawkins

Children, Mean, Scratches

Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.45, Oxford University Press

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That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, Difficulty, Careful

Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.234

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I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

Ansel Adams

Photography, Believe, Assessment

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