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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. — Laurence Sterne
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster… — James Surowiecki
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find… — Lech Walesa
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. — Andrew Young
I try to keep in my mind the simple question: Am I trying to do good or make myself look good? Too many of our… — Kevin DeYoung
If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has… — Paulo Coelho
Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration… — Barbara Kingsolver
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been told I've got a darkish personality. A few times." Takahashi swings his trombone case from his right shoulder to his left. Then… — Haruki Murakami
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky,… — P.G. Wodehouse
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is… — Mahatma Gandhi
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste… — Walter Kaufmann
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. — George Bernard Shaw
We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather… — Rebecca Solnit
No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of… — Dean Koontz
And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet… — Henry David Thoreau
No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and… — Gordon B. Hinckley

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