Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it."
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling."
Larry Elder
Political Commentator, Author, Radio Host
"People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work."
Edith Wharton
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys."
Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE."
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"When we know to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the heartsof others."
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"The only intelligence investing is value investing...to acquire more than one is paying for."
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"Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others."
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"All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack."
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"In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom"
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"Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue."
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"It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly."
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"It is therefore an excellent device to acquire knowledge from everybody."
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"The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more."
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"Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'."
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"In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it."
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"Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others."
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"Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence."
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