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• Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Past, People

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• Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Character, Texture

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

  Mao Zedong

  Real, Hero, Understanding

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.64, Lulu.com

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• The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Suffering, Principles, Faces

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• The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  Greed, Body, Reason Why

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• October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Twilight, Sunset

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.178, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

  C. S. Lewis

  Reading, Important, Happens

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• If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humility, Done, Proud

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• Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Class, People

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• That I am a monk and you are a layman is of no importance ... rather that we are both in the light of the Holy Spirit ... Acquire peace, and thousands around you will be saved.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Christian, Light, Spirit

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• Truth is not something you can appropriate easily and quickly. You certainly cannot sleep or dream yourself to the truth. No, you must be tried, do battle, and suffer if you are to acquire the truth for yourself. It is a sheer illusion to think that in relation to the truth there is an abridgement, a short cut that dispenses with the necessity for struggling for it.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Dream, Struggle

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• Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary.

  Chanakya

  Night, Religion, Wicked

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• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  Sallust

  Art, Names, Engagement

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• The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Art, Paris

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The East and the West: (Prachya o Paschatya)”, p.59, editionNEXT.com

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• If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

  Muriel Spark

  Cat, Writing, Pieces

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• Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

  John Wooden

  Effort, Mind, Self-satisfaction

  John Wooden (1997). “Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court”, p.201, McGraw Hill Professional

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• 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 Is, Produce, Obstruction

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

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• Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Teaching, Ego, Benefits

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.15, Shambhala Publications

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• We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Real, Heart, Giving

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• A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Grace, World, Way

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.25, InterVarsity Press

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• We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

  Paulo Coelho

  Quality, Advantage, Grows

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• Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

  Hope Solo

  Athlete, Nerves, Way

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• You acquire a new kind of intelligence when you stay away from instant news.

  Manu Joseph

  News, Kind, Instant

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