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• Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
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• The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first… — H. Rap Brown
• Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly… — 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… — 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… — Kate Chopin
• Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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