#acquire

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

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The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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