Quotes 41 till 59 of 59.
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The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more.
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The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
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Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
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Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.
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Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
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You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
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As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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