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Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had. ↗

— Frances Rodman

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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

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The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. ↗

— Katherine Graham

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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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No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

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The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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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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The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status. ↗

— David F. Houston

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The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. ↗

— Edward Bond

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