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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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• My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Jobs, Power

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.39, Anchor

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• The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

  Charles Bass

  Military, Technology, Effort

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• The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

  Charles Bass

  Technology, Government, Design

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• Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

  John Bercow

  Men, Time Goes By

  "Profile: Commons Speaker, John Bercow" by David Hencke, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2009.

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• You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.

  Saffron Burrows

  Successful, Actors, Film

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• Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either - though that's probably because he actually has nuclear weapons, as opposed to Iran which might or might not be trying to acquire them and thus remains on the Israeli-American target list.

  Robert Fisk

  Iran, Trying, Nuclear

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• The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.

  Andrew Gould

  Oil, Want, Company

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• People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.

  Larry Elder

  People, Effort, Known

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• The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

  Tom Freston

  Grateful, Skills, Looks

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• Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Soul, Training

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• I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!

  Nadia Giosia

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Rocks

  "Nadia G. Dishes On Her Hunger for Life". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2012.

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• In truth, he who is not content with what he has would not be content with whatever he acquires.

  Swami Parthasarathy

  Awakening

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• I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians.

  Michael Nyman

  Musician, Scratches, Use

  "He's got that thinking feeling". Interview with Peter Conrad, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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• In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Order, Smell, Hollywood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Self, Doe, Fame

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• However you arrive at the ability to ignore self-doubt - if you can acquire it or possess it or find it or discover it - move beyond self-doubt.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Moving, Self, Doubt

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