"The Church no longer contends that knowledge is……" — Bertrand Russell

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• To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
• It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen… — John Cage
• The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive… — J. G. Holland
• All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
• Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen
• The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances -… — Peter Drucker
• The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and… — J. William Fulbright
• Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to… — Bahá'u'lláh
• The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James
• If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as… — William James
• Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for… — Lev S. Vygotsky

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