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Acquired Quotes by Martin Jacques
- If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted…
- The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when…
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- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on… — Franklin P. Adams
- The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is… — H. Rap Brown
- Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited… — Smedley Butler
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
- Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
- Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. — Willa Cather
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired… — Lord Chesterfield
- Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield
- To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's… — Kate Chopin
- Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it,… — Emile M. Cioran