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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us… — George Sand
Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals… — Chin-Ning Chu
Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's… — William Shenstone
Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it. — Carolyn Heilbrun
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us… — Orson F. Whitney
Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated… — Francis Maitland Balfour
There are still many unsolved problems about bird life, among which are the age that birds attain, the exact time at which some birds acquire… — Paul Bartsch
Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in… — Mata Amritanandamayi
People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make… — H. P. Blavatsky
The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will… — Sun Tzu
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own… — Ayn Rand
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and… — Robert G. Allen
If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you,… — John Cassian
... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God, from the study of things… — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence. — William Feather
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty.… — Robert Hugh Benson
It is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strengths. To accept that pain is inherent… — Shunryu Suzuki

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