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Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to… — Charles Caleb Colton
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that… — William Faulkner
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom. — Malcolm X
The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition;… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize. — Felix Frankfurter
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's… — Carlos Ghosn
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in… — Salvador Dali
Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. — Wayne Dyer
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise… — Umberto Eco
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We acquire the strength we have overcome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. — Epicurus
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… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We work to become, not to acquire. — Elbert Hubbard
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… — Aldous Huxley
As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire… — Jeffrey Kluger
I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with… — Charles Krauthammer
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… — Niccolo Machiavelli
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

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