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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ↗

— Robert South

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The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ↗

— Aristotle

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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time. ↗

— Charles Krauthammer

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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ↗

— Willa Cather

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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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