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The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we… — Sathya Sai Baba
The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind… — Gustav Holst
Acquire and store a reserve of food and supplies that will sustain life. ... As long as I can remember, we have been taught to… — L. Tom Perry
Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire well-being only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice… — Mohammed Morsi
The family, as the fundamental and essential educating community, is the privileged means for transmitting the religious and cultural values which help the person to… — Pope John Paul II
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space… — Graham Swift
I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the… — Sergei Rachmaninoff
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us. — Jerome Bruner
Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of… — Urie Bronfenbrenner
When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become. — Greg Bear
Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved. — Seraphim of Sarov
In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are overwhelmed by them… — Robert Greene
Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or… — Susan Sontag
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his… — Herbert Hoover
There is no question that Iraq possesses biological and chemical weapons and that he [Saddam Hussein] seeks to acquire additional weapons of mass destruction, including… — Christopher Dodd
Perfection consists in one thing alone, which is doing the will of God. For, according to Our Lord's words, it suffices for perfection to deny… — St. Vincent
The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice,… — Robert Solow
I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to… — Joseph Pulitzer

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