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• You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

  Pope Gregory I

  Christian, Anger, Lord

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• God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.

  Rumi

  Life, Heart, Eye

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• If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

  Richard Livingstone

  Children, School, Ideas

  Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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• Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make clear. The argument against reason in this literature is straightforward: it is impossible for any individual to acquire enough reliable information to make a rational decision, any actions founded on rational thought will therefore be delusional, any attempts at reason should therefore regarded as dangerous, and all action should instead be guided by tradition.

  Philip E. Agre

  Philosophy, Decision, Literature

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• Understand the obstructions you are putting in the way of love, freedom, and happiness and they will drop. Turn on the light of awareness and the darkness will disappear. 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, Spiritual, Light

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

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• Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.

  John Berger

  Envy, Culture, Satisfaction

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• Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

  Isaac Watts

  Ideas, Government, Over You

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• From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Exercise, Ideas

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• The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.

  Ayn Rand

  Education, Home, School

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.154, Penguin

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• I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.

  Jacques Barzun

  Book, Writing, Learning

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• The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs. Right practice aims at preventing insertion of errors and, failing that, removing them before testing or any other running of the program.

  Hayley Mills

  Running, Learning, Errors

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• The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Animal, Rights, Hands

  An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ch. 17 (1789)

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• Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or have, and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions, achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire evidence of your importance... On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within you. ...with imagination, we have the power to be anything we desire to be.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Hands, Imagination

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• That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

  Meister Eckhart

  Love, Men, Contemplation

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• In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Long, Mind Your Own Business, Assets

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• The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

  Jim Rohn

  Goal, Mind Your Own Business, Reaching

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• The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.

  Eric Butterworth

  Goal, Energy, Needs

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• Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

  Xunzi

  Teacher, Nature, People

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• Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Distance, Fall

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

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• Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Wall, Lying, Real

  "A Collection of Classic Essays by William Lyon Phelps - Including 'Happiness', 'Superstition', 'The Great American Game', and Many More".

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• If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?

  Pope Pius XII

  Work, Men, Sobriety

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• It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Excellent, Devices

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• Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Transcendentalism, Instinct

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.59

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• Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

  Paul Keres

  Hard Work, Technique, World

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• If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

  Mikhail Botvinnik

  Games, Training, Chess

  Mikhail Botvinnik (2012). “Botvinnik: 100 Selected Games”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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