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I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened. ↗

— Wilma Rudolph

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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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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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We're enlarging in every single area of the ministry at In Touch. We're on radio and television. We're in over 110 million homes in America plus radio on satellites. We just acquired the NAMB FamilyNet television network, and with that expanding possibilities of the gospel. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. ↗

— Isaac Hanson

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. ↗

— Avicenna

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Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

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

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. ↗

— Tori Amos

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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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