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“The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own”
William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)

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“The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon quotes (French naturalist devoted to science, in 1773 became a Count, 1707 - 1788)
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“The most desirable mode of education. . . . is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.”
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“Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry”
Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)
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“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”
Rene Descartes quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)
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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)
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“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)
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“Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.”
Konstantin Stanislavsky quotes (Russian Actor He co-founder the Moscow Art Theatre, 1898; develped the method theory of acting in which the actor identifies with the role., 1863-1938)
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“Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.”
Aleister Crowley quotes (English poet, author, philosopher, 1875-1947)
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“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
Socrates quotes (Ancient Greek Philosopher, 470 BC-399 BC)
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“It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''”
John Cage quotes (American avant-garde composer, 1912-1992)
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“He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy”
Chanakya quotes (Indian Politician, strategist and Writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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“Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.”
Chanakya quotes (Indian Politician, strategist and Writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
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