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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

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What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ↗

— Gelett Burgess

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

— Saul Williams

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