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• There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Simple, Two, Needs

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• An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Attitude, Self Esteem

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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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• You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Wisdom, Learning

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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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• It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

  Livy

  Wealth, Moments, Easy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", XXIV. 22, (pp. 864-867), 1922.

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• The living model never answers well the idea or impressions the painter wishes to express; one must, therefore, learn to do without one, and for that, you must acquire facility, furnish one's memory to the point of infinitude, and make numerous drawings after the old masters.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Memories, Drawing, Ideas

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• If you set out to copy after one master today and after one tomorrow, you will not acquire the style of either one or the other, and you will inevitably become fantastic, because each style will fatigue your mind.

  Cennino Cennini

  Style, Mind, Today

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• The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Judging, Perfection, Degrees

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• To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think: this is the first step toward getting rich.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Thinking, Want, Way

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.218, Penguin

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• Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

  John Singer Sargent

  Appreciation, Eye, Color

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• Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

  Edgar Wilson Nye

  Spring, Years, People

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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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• Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Society, Leisure, Wealth

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.115

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