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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.


Hans-Georg Gadamer


#aesthetic #alienated #being #clear #consciousness

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.


Janos Kadar


#compatriots #earn #honour #only #other

Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war.


Robert Toombs


#california #compact #mexico #mr #new

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.


Sidney Lanier


#acquired #endeavor #rests #through #upon

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.


Joseph Rotblat


#act #bring #civilization #destroy #development

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.


Robert South


#consisting #each #fame #famous #greece

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.


Henry Bessemer


#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast

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


David Lloyd George


#conferred #habit #liberty #merely #privilege

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


#already #america #anyone #attention #course

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.


James Madison


#acquired #gives #natural #natural right #personal






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