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The beginning of civilisation is the discovery of some useful arts, by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving… — Humphry Davy
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to… — Noam Chomsky
If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning. — Josh Billings
Acquire knowledge and teach it to people. — Umar
Hey Deion, Bubbelah - maybe you'd better pay a little less attention to those unfairly Draconian salary caps that only allowed you to acquire four… — Dennis Miller
Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art… — Joni Mitchell
If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to… — Cal Thomas
Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by… — Robert M. Lindner
You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will… — Amory Lovins
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of losing a game — Siegbert Tarrasch
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no… — Joshua Reynolds
The truth is you can acquire any quality you want by acting as though you already have it. — Joseph Murphy
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. — G. Stanley Hall
I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for. — Charis Wilson
Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and… — Alphonsus Liguori
The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences… — Honore de Balzac
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived… — Joan Robinson
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb

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