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• You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

  Orrin Woodward

  Internals

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• Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice Party will be the conductors of these goals.

  Mohammed Morsi

  Brother, Party, Law

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• The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to acquire his or her own identity. Founded on love and open to the gift of life, the family contains in itself the very future of society; its most special task is to contribute effectively to a future of peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Mean, Community

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• I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.

  Sergei Rachmaninoff

  Writing, Effort, Musical

  "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, p. 351, 2002.

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• But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Doubt, Questioning, Standpoint

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “The Caged Virgin: A Muslim Woman's Cry for Reason”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

  Andrew Loomis

  Art, Men, Skills

  Andrew Loomis (1943). “Figure drawing for all it's worth”, Viking Pr

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• Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love, to find that Bahá’í young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Art, Children, Pride

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• Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

  Milarepa

  Life Is Short, Evil, Meditation

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• Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Editors, Skills, Truth Is

  "Like Mother Like Daughter: PW Talks with Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Scottoline Serritella". Interview with Linda M. Castellitto, www.publishersweekly.com. October 11, 2010.

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• There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, War, Agriculture

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• Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Accomplishment, Increase, Interest

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• Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Hurt, Men, Light

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.12

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• I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Mean, Beer

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• What is the purpose for which Masonry exists? Its ultimate purpose is the perfection of humanity. Mankind it self is still in a period of youth. We are only now beginning to acquire a consciousness of the social aim of civilization, which is man's perfection. Such perfection can never end with physical perfection, which is only the means to the end or spiritual perfection.

  Albert Pike

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• If discrimination based on race is constitutionally permissible when those who hold the reins can come up with "compelling" reasons to justify it, then constitutional guarantees acquire an accordion-like quality.

  William O. Douglas

  Compelling Reason, Race, Quality

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• We must acquire the faith to accept the fact that all knowledge is from God and known to God. Knowledge is released to man on earth according to God's plan for him. Free or liberal thinking does not change truth, the revealed knowledge which comes from God.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself.

  Duane Elgin

  Pain, Loss, Pleasure Seeking

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• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  Ike Skelton

  Goal, Research, Disease

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• In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.

  Philip Kotler

  Creating, People, Unhappy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Every man has been made by God in order to acquire knowledge and contemplate.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Order, Made

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• To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Skills

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.302, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Acceptance, Self

  Brené Brown (2013). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.88, Penguin UK

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• Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Smoking, Curls, Mouths

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• It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Copying, Literature, Scripts

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• No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

  John Galt

  Mind, Matter, Modest

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