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Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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

— Sara Teasdale

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

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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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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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north. ↗

— Jared Diamond

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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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