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• No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Way, Divulge

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.351, Delphi Classics

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• Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Opportunity, Practice, Skills

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.474, Macmillan

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• Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations.

  Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

  Men, Years, Community

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• Man's earthly existence is but a test as to whether he will concentrate his efforts, his mind, his soul upon things which contribute to the comfort and gratification of his physical instincts and passions, or whether he will make as his life's end and purpose the acquisition of spiritual qualities

  David O. McKay

  Spiritual, Passion, Men

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• The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

  Joseph Conrad

  Artist, Appeals, Endure

  The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

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• When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

  Sophocles

  Pride, Boys, Doors

  Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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• Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Men, Humanity

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.171, Diversion Books

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• Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and
  approval.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Esteem, Approval, Self

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Everyday Wisdom for Success (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress in other domains, just as the properties that enable each child to acquire a complex and highly articulated human language block the acquisition of other imaginable linguistic systems.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Block, Mind

  Source: chomsky.info

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• And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Philosophy, Fire

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• We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Christian, Taken, Men

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• Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more.

  Sigmund Freud

  Depressing, Real, Play

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Found

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• In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Mean, Alternatives, Sacred

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• The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall].

  Charlie Munger

  Dumb, Buckets, Credit

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• The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Desire, May, Information

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons of acquisitions people, and the fate of your film in some ways, if not decided, is really affected by how it screens that night.

  James Ponsoldt

  Fate, Night, People

  Source: collider.com

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• At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that caused the dumb acquisition to be made are quickly forgotten. You've got denial, you've got everything in the world. You've got Pavlovian association tendency. Nobody even wants to even be associated with the damned thing or even mention it. At Johnson & Johnson, they make everybody revisit their old acquisitions and wade through the presentations. That is a very smart thing to do. And by the way, I do the same thing routinely.

  Charlie Munger

  Smart, Dumb, Denial

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• Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

  Warren Buffett

  Naked, Fairy Tale, Foolish

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• Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something.

  Vernon Howard

  Understanding

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• In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

  John Wooden

  Accomplishment, Rewards, More Time

  John Wooden (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.

  Socrates

  Blessing, Men, Practice

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• No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of knowledge. It is only by suffering that the genius understands men. And the genius suffers most because he suffers with and in each and all; but he suffers most through his understanding. . . .

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Compassion, People

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.181, Рипол Классик

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• In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Facts, Principles

  Source: chomsky.info

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• What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual system, system of motor organisation, and others - including, in fact, the digestive system.

  Noam Chomsky

  Doe, Etc, Facts

  Source: libcom.org

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