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• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mistake, Men, Wish

  "The Prince". Book by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1532.

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• The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

  James Madison

  Giving, Liberty, Protection

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Long, Suffering, Youth

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• The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it.

  Joseph Murphy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Learning

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• The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Past, Men, Possible And Impossible

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.179, Read Books Ltd

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• Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

  Wendell Phillips

  Example, Speak, Authority

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.114

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• Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Power, Sisterhood, Men

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• For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by means of comparison. That which is absolutely incomparable is wholly incomprehensible. God is the only example that we could give here. He cannot be comprehended, because he cannot be compared. But all which is susceptible of comparison, everything that we can perceive by different aspects, all that we can consider relatively, can always be judged according to our knowledge.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  God, Knowledge, Mean

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• It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Education, Mother, Father

  "We Believe: Doctrines and Principles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints". Book by Rulon T. Burton, p. 10, 1994.

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• Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Science, Animal, Simple

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• There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire their adult dress, and the changes which occur in this with years. Little, too, is known about the laws and routes of bird migration, and much less about the final disposition of the untold thousands which are annually produced.

  Paul Bartsch

  Science, Years, Law

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• Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Meditation, Vitality, Treasure

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• Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

  William Shenstone

  Respect, Mean, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.122

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• In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Men, Abuse

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.74, Modern Library

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• There are some souls so base and filthy that they love gain and interest as noble souls love fame and virtue, knowing one pleasure only, that of making money or of not losing it; anxious and avid for their ten per cent; entirely preoccupied with what is owed them; forever concerned about the depreciation or discredit of money; buried, and as it were engulfed, amid contracts, title-deeds and parchments. Such people are neither parents, friends, citizens or Christians, nor, perhaps, even men; they merely have money.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Greed, Soul, Mind

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

  Nido R Qubein

  Mean, Desire, Balance

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• Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Past, Acquisition

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• To the grumbler who complains about the unfairness of the market system only one piece of advice can be given: If you want to acquire wealth, then try to satisfy the public by offering them something that is cheaper or which they like better....Equality under the law gives you the power to challenge every millionaire.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Equality Under The Law, Offering, Giving

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• How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, one must find ways to please his fellow man. That is, find out what goods and services his fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Successful, Men, Order

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• Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mean, Persistence, Mind

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “Your Magic Power to be Rich!”, p.27, Penguin

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• For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

  Laozi

  Perseverance, Intelligent, Men

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• If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order. So that even were the order intrinsically indifferent, it would facilitate education to lead the individual mind through the steps traversed by the general mind. But the order is not intrinsically indifferent; and hence the fundamental reason why education should be a repetition of civilization in little.

  Herbert Spencer

  Children, Knowledge, Science

  Herbert Spencer (1914). “Essays on education and kindred subjects Repr”

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• No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Passion, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
  Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

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• Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and to guide his life with understanding. Through Science he will be freed from the fetters of superstition; through faith in Science he will acquire a new and enduring delight in the exercise of his capacities; he will gain a zest and interest in life such as the present phase of culture fails to supply.

  Ray Lankester

  Faith, Believe, Science

  "The Advancement of Science: Occasional Essays & Addresses". Book by Ray Lankester, p. 108-9, "Biology and the State", 1890.

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