#acquire

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

#after #enslaved #most #people #possess

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. ↗

— Katherine Graham

#acquired #better #careful #days #had

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. ↗

— Sivananda

#alone #best #best way #contentment #craving

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#knowledge #must #observe #study #wisdom

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#act #any #comes #deny #easily

Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve. ↗

— Simin Daneshvar

#best #deserve #give #heart #help

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#again #american #american people #any #back

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

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