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• Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.

  LeCrae

  Hard Work, Ends, Hard

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• I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” - because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one's own “brain voices”. The perfume part is important because it will help find the knowledge again to help get to the destinations the inner urges pick.

  Alan Kay

  Thinking, Voice, Brain

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• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  Victor Grignard

  Hydrogen Atom, Atoms, Acid

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• You can't go to the pharmacy to buy a pack of experience, you have to be in those games in order to acquire that experience.

  Bob Hartley

  Order, Games, Pharmacy

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• Some people are born losers; others acquire the knack gradually.

  W. C. Fields

  People, Knack, Moral

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• Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Honesty, Would Be, Reputation

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• Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the category of poetry, the number of meaningful elements in it acquires the capacity to grow and the system of their combinations also becomes more complex.

  Yuri Lotman

  Meaningful, Art, Numbers

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• Acquire knowledge before you become leaders and pride prevents you from learning and you live in ignorance.

  Umar

  Ignorance, Pride, Leader

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• We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Political, Riches, Spirit

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• I don't consider myself to be a crusader of any sort. I was bystander to a certain number of newspaper crusades. They end badly, in terms of being either fraudulent or by inspiring legislations that makes things worse. So, I regard myself as someone coming to the campfire with the truest possible narrative he can acquire.

  David Simon

  Bystanders, Numbers, Narrative

  "Behind The Wire". Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. December 1, 2006.

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• What is it that endowed things with meaning, value, significance? The creating heart, which desired, and, out of its desire, created. It created joy and woe. It wanted to satiate itself with woe. We must take all the suffering that has been endured by men and animals upon ourselves and affirm it, and possess a goal in which it acquires reason.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Men, Animal

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• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wealth, Pleasure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

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• A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Women, Cutting

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• Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Law, People

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• Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Errors, Common

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52

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• Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Process, Labor, Property

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2444, Delphi Classics

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• The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an atrophy. Whatever body or society wastes more than it acquires, must gradually decay, and every being that continues to be fed, and eases to labor, takes away something from the public stock.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hands, Numbers, People

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• A novel which survives, which withstands and outlives time, does do something more than merely survive. It does not stand still. It accumulates round itself the understanding of all these persons who bring to it something of their own. It acquires associations, it becomes a form of experience in itself, so that two people who meet can often make friends, find an approach to each other, because of this one great common experience they have had.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Reading, Two, People

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• Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

  Mason Cooley

  Speech, Certain, Existence

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• Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why then is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Pain, Husband

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• Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Death, Military

  Men at War introduction (1942)

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• Great ladies are no more spiteful than the average rich woman; but one acquires in their society a greater susceptibility, and feels more profoundly andmore irremediably, their unpleasant remarks.

  Stendhal

  Women, Average, Society

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• King René of Anjou [(1409-80)]was a strange compound of amiable, great and trifling qualities. He was so excellent a sovereign as to acquire the surnom of the Good. He was brave in war, delighted in tournaments and wrote on them, instituted festivals and processions, partly religious and partly burlesque, was a fond husband, a romantic lover, a good painter for that age, and a true philosopher.

  Horace Walpole

  Religious, Kings, Husband

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• You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks without straw.

  Arnold Bennett

  Ideas, Firsts, Bricks

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)”, p.10463, Delphi Classics

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• Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Schooling, Interference

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.26, St. Martin's Press

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