#acquire

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. ↗

— William Osler

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It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. ↗

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#education #grade #higher #method #prejudices

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

#corruption #done #government #government officials #i