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• Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in.

  Russell Brand

  Believe, Media, People

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In fact, the human young are so immature that if they were left to themselves without the guidance and succor of others, they could not acquire the rudimentary abilities necessary for physical existence.

  John Dewey

  Immature, Facts, Guidance

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• By doing his share in the associated activity, the individual appropriates the purpose which actuates it, becomes familiar with its methods and subject matters, acquires needed skill, and is saturated with its emotional spirit.

  John Dewey

  Emotional, Skills, Matter

  John Dewey, (2013). “Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.30, Read Books Ltd

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• Men are seldom born brave but they acquire courage through training and discipline - a handful of men inured to war proceed to certain victory; while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

  Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

  Military, War, Army

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• Assuming that the future is like the past, you can outperform 80 percent of your fellow investors over the next several decades by investing in an index fund-and doing nothing else. But acquire the discipline to do something even better: become a long-term index fund investor.

  Mark Hulbert

  Past, Discipline, Long

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• At least with [Hillary] Clinton, you know, there was some degree of transparency. There was some sense of what's going on here, and a lot to be very alarmed about, whether it's the - you know, the Prince Bandar and, you know, the princes of Saudi Arabia, or Bahrain, or the Russians that she enabled to acquire 20 percent of our uranium supply. I mean, really outrageous stuff. The arms deals, et., a lot of grave concern.

  Jill Stein

  Mean, Bahrain, Arms

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Language, Persons, Access

  Source: www.alternet.org

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• It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.

  Rafael Nadal

  Maturity, Play, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Whether I affect one person or an entire family, or even a group of people, I feel like I have resources and education and ability and skills that some people may not be fortunate enough to acquire. But by sharing and inquiring, being a listener, and being interested in the stories of other people and their lives, I can also pull things out and say "What can I do for them? What can I share with them that may alleviate some of their suffering?"

  Chath Piersath

  Skills, People, Suffering

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We can acquire as much knowledge as we would like with a few taps on our keyboard. That's extremely valuable, but wisdom comes again from some different dimension.

  Roger Housden

  Dimensions, Different, Keyboards

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.

  John Stuart Mill

  Teacher, Real, Feelings

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• Hundreds of these companies I've seen since the beginning stages - including Dropbox and Airbnb - one of them has actually been crushed by an incumbent. The Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks, they might be someone to acquire you, which is not necessarily a bad position to be in.

  Alexis Ohanian

  Google, Might, Stage

  Source: www.fool.com

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• Almost all of the governments have agreed that they will not acquire nuclear weapons and that they will allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor their commercial and research nuclear power operations to ensure that nuclear materials - highly enriched uranium and plutonium - are not diverted to use in weapons.

  John Burroughs

  Agency, Government, Energy

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• I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.

  Bob Saget

  Book, Needs, Digital

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Exercise, Data

  Source: libcom.org

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• Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want the material blessings of life and we are neglecting the elevated state of existence! And that's why God said of Abraham he was neither a Christian nor a Jew, he was a Muslim: he was an upright man.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Christian, Blessing, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the discipline or the patience - or the ability or the humility. It took 20 years to acquire those things.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Humility, College, Thinking

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen 'Never Stopped Being a Refugee'". Interview with Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2017.

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• This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Merit, Tasks, Should

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• In China, we intend to acquire advanced technology, science and management skills to serve our socialist production. And these things as such have no class character.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Character, Technology, Class

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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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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• It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.

  Richard A. Falk

  Military, Fate, Iran

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.

  Philip Kotler

  Creating, People, Unhappy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

  Aristotle

  Integrity, Destiny, Men

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

  Teresa of Avila

  Humility, Catholic, Saint

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