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Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. ↗

— William Glasser

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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

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Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective. ↗

— Paul Biya

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