"By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit,……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once… — Kevin Bacon
• President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. — John O. Brennan
• The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other… — John O. Brennan
• We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us… — Albert Camus
• In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial… — Unknown Author
• Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. — Mahatma Gandhi
• If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their… — Charles Darwin
• In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate… — William James
• For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential… — Adolf Hitler
• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have… — Greg LeMond
• The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts,… — Seraphim of Sarov

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