#acquired

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

— Pliny the Elder

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The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. ↗

— Elihu Root

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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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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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When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. ↗

— Robert Toombs

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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. ↗

— Esther Williams

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I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. ↗

— Saul Williams

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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. ↗

— John Wooden

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