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• Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

  Shana Alexander

  Travel, People, World

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.

  Fay Weldon

  Confidence, Writing, Impossible

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• The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.

  David Swing

  Beautiful, Honesty, Men

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• When success happens to an English writer, he acquires a new typewriter. When success happens to an American writer, he acquires a new life.

  Martin Amis

  Typewriters, New Life, Happens

  1986 The Moronic Inferno,'Kurt Vonnegut'.

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• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Spring, Struggle

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• Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Party, Fighting, Fire

  Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”

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• Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Ignorance, Men, Citizens

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• I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Truth, Believe

  Alice Miller (2002). “The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self”, p.9, Basic Books

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• We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  People, Merit, Reputation

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• I wish we could understand the word expert as expressing an attitude of mind which we can all acquire rather than the collecting of information by a special caste. ... Many of us are calling for experts because, acutely conscious of the mess we are in, we want someone to pull us out.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Attitude, Mind, Special

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• many rules could be made for the giving of orders. Don't preach when you give orders. Don't discuss matters already settled unless you have fresh data. Make your direction so specific that there will be no question whether they have been obeyed or not. Find out how to give directions and yet to allow people opportunity for independent thinking, for initiative. And so on and so on. Order-giving requires just as much study and just as much training as any other skill we wish to acquire.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Independent, Opportunity

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• The mental powers acquire their full robustness when the cheek loses its ruddy hue, and the limbs their elastic step; and pale thought sits on manly brows, and the watchman, as he walks his rounds, sees the student's lamp burning far into the silent night.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Night, Age, Lamps

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows: being a series of sermons from Luke XIX.41”, p.17

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• Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Worry, Care, May

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• Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Teacher, Fear

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.154, Granta Books

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• It is a constant battle to resist the temptation to have more luxuries, to acquire more stuff, and to live more comfortably.

  David Platt

  Luxury, Temptation, Battle

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.130, Multnomah

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• [On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?

  Joan Fontaine

  Daughter, Children, Giving

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• Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within.

  Sue Grafton

  Writing, Eye, Self

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• Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

  William Benton Clulow

  Regret, Ignorance, Knowledge

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.136

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• No matter how many possessions we acquire, they will not provide us with any lasting happiness and freedom. On the contrary, it is often our pursuit of material possessions that causes our problems. If we want ultimate happiness and freedom from suffering, we must engage in the supreme practices of training the mind. There is no other way.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happiness, Freedom, Practice

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Cancer, Men

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• The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.

  Hermann Adler

  Children, Mean, Gains

  "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, pp. 78-79, (One-volume edition), 1937.

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• Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

  Anil Sinha

  Confidence, Believe, Self

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• Zen wants us to acquire an entirely new point of view whereby to look into the mysteries of life and the secrets of nature. This is because Zen has come to the definite conclusion that the ordinary logical process of reasoning is powerless to give final satisfaction to our deepest spiritual needs.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Nature, Views

  D.T. Suzuki (2007). “An Introduction to Zen Buddhism”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A children's writer should, ideally, be a dedicated semi-lunatic, a kind of poet with a marvelous idea, who, preferably, when not committing the marvellous idea to paper, does something else of a quite different kind, so as to acquire new and rich experience.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Ideas, Doe

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• The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.

  William Fleming

  Memories, Imagination, Perception

  William Fleming (1857). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.264

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