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I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. - James F Byrnes Quotes
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. - Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson Quotes
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. - William Shakespeare Quotes
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. - Catherine De Hueck Doherty Quotes
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. - George Adam Smith Quotes
To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy. - Bertrand Russell Quotes
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quotes
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence. - Tarja Halonen Quotes
Everybody has to chip in, I think, and see how we can have a functioning system of collective security where we do not continue to face the threat of countries trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction or particularly nuclear weapons. - Mohamed Elbaradei Quotes
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. - Napoleon Hill Quotes
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. - William Osler Quotes
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. - Marie Henri Beyle Quotes
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. - James J Corbett Quotes
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. - Nathaniel Branden Quotes
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil. - Maria Montessori Quotes
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. - Blaise Pascal Quotes
As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. - Ezra Cornell Quotes
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. - Leland Stanford Quotes
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. - Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization. - Charles Foster Bass Quotes
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. - Ike Skelton Quotes
But it was impressed upon me that there was such a thing as good study habits and that I would have to acquire them if I wanted to be a scholar. - Robert B Laughlin Quotes
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. - Stendhal Quotes
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. - Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. - Ernst Lubitsch Quotes
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. - Laurence Sterne Quotes
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. - John Charles Polanyi Quotes
The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally. - Andrew Gould Quotes
I was sent to a school because my father was already aware that his days were numbered, and he was anxious for me to acquire a good education and follow in his footsteps. - Sigrid Undset Quotes
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