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• If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.

  Ryan Adams

  Blow, Night, Bills

  Live performance at Chicago Theater, September 29, 2007.

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• Acquire with the intention to retain, and retain with the intention to grow.

  Lester Wunderman

  Intention, Grows

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• The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

  David Hume

  Care, Form, Assurance

  David Hume (2012). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”, p.28, tredition

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• Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity. Banish the fear-attitude; acquire the confident attitude. And remember that the only way to acquire it is-to acquire it.

  Walter Dill Scott

  Attitude, Fear, Way

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• Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

  Milan Kundera

  Possibility, Existence, New Possibilities

  "Slowness". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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• We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

  Dolores Huerta

  Use, World, Earth

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• Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

  Leland Stanford

  School, Law, Institutions

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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• If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be very very glad… DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling frightened and unhappy. If you buy a captured wild parrot, you will promote a cruel and devastating practice, and the parrot will be emotionally scarred before you get it. Meeting that sad animal is not an agreeable surprise.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Animal, Practice

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• One might say the computer is being used to program the child. In my vision, the child programs the computer, and in doing so, both acquires a sense of mastery over a piece of the most modern and powerful technology and establishes an intense contact with some of the deepest ideas from science, from mathematics, and from the art of intellectual model building.

  Seymour Papert

  Art, Children, Powerful

  "Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas". Book by Seymour Papert, 1980.

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• No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Littles, Arithmetic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.82

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• Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder to robbery. I have somewhere seen it observed, that we should make the same use of a book, as a bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it; and those sweets she herself improves and concocts into honey. But most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, nor industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sweet, Flower, Book

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.232

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• If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Temptation, Soul, Suffering

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• Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?

  Lorraine Heath

  Believe, Order, Want

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• ...the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things, a sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Grateful, Thinking, Tragedy

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• Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Observation

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.78

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• The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.

  Horace

  Use, Gains, Misers

  "Ars Poetica" by Horace, 170,

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• The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just as the outward eye is disciplined to compare, adjust, estimate, measure, the objects reflected on the back of its retina.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Eye, Imagination

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• Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Overcoming, Resistance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

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• It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Meaningful, Men, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?

  May Sarton

  Looks, Knack, Were Meant To Be

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Distance, Degrees, Offensive

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.65

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• Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Memories, Men, Deeds

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1958). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Feelings, Modesty, Shame

  "Rhetorical Invention", Book II, Section LVI, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 520-21,

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• The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.

  Jean Racine

  Feelings, Mind, Lasts

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• All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.

  Stephen Spender

  Skills, Achievement, Judgement

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