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• To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Skills

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.302, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Acceptance, Self

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.88, Penguin UK

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• Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.

  Joel Salatin

  Struggle, Years, Land

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• Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Smoking, Curls, Mouths

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• It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Copying, Literature, Scripts

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• You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

  Orrin Woodward

  Internals

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• The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy.

  Jane McGonigal

  Stay Happy, Harder

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.41, Penguin

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• No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

  John Galt

  Mind, Matter, Modest

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• A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.

  E. M. Forster

  Lying, Mirrors, Historical

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Errors, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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• Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that makes a crop every so often and usually right they have an affinity for evil for supplying whatever the evil lacks in itself for drawing it about them instinctively as you do bed-clothing in slumber fertilizing the mind for it until the evil has served its purpose whether it ever existed or no.

  William Faulkner

  Women, Drawing, People

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• A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Believe, Men

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ambition, Ambitious, Desire

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIX, 1840.

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• Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Events, Facts, Consideration

  "Phelps Dodge Corp. v. NLRB, 313 U.S. 177". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 28, 1941.

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• So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

  Andrew Delbanco

  College, Bullshit, Important

  Andrew Delbanco (2014). “College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be”, p.29, Princeton University Press

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• If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are.

  RZA

  Self, Definitions, Defeat

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.89, Penguin

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• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, "Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Men, Years

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.200

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• If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Contagious, My Thoughts, Greater

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Self, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

  John Wyndham

  Hope, Ambition, Machines

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• If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

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• What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Educational, School, Eye

  "Stephen Covey Interviews Grameen Bank Founder Muhammad Yunus". Interview with Stephen Covey, socialbusinesspedia.com. November 1, 2016.

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• I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.

  Angela Davis

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Thinking

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I don't think it's necessary to feel guilty. Because I know that I'm still doing the work that is going to help more sisters and brothers to challenge the whole criminal justice system, and I'm trying to use whatever knowledge I was able to acquire to continue to do the work in our communities that will move us forward.

  Angela Davis

  Brother, Moving, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.

  Talal Asad

  Self, Giving, Shapes

  "Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad". Interview with Hasan Azad, www.jadaliyya.com. February 3, 2015.

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