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What use was her grown-up knowledge
acquired through such initiations, at such risk
in this world of infants, who had to be kept safe? — Tessa Hadley

There's tons of people that spend a lot time watching their well being, they have not acquired time to take pleasure in it. — Josh Billings

as he got up one last time. "Target acquired," the Soldier murmured to himself, exhaling — James Patterson

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness. — Henri Matisse

Spit Fyre practised a recently acquired skill - he winked. — Angie Sage

Contentment is not a power that may be exercised naturally, but a science to be acquired gradually. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me. — Marguerite Duras

The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dragons didn't fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired - be it gold, gems, or a monster's body parts. — Lisa Shearin

Music is not an acquired culture ... it is an active part of life. — Isaac Stern

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not. — Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse De Genlis

Knowledge can be acquired from others. Understanding is your own. — Sunil Malhotra

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. — Ovid

There is no craftsman who has acquired full mastery — Ptahhotep

Knowledge is acquired by diligent study. But wisdom is given by the revere of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers. — George Henry Lewes

Don't spit, swallow: there is protein and other good stuff in male semen; it's an acquired taste and, once acquired, totally addictive. — Chloe Thurlow

Let each citizen contribute their natural talents or acquired skills to the greater benefit of all in the community. — Michael Tellinger

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. — Gao Xingjian

I am an acquired taste. — W.S. Gilbert

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,
by consulting the oracular dead. — Augustus William Hare

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles. — Publilius Syrus

I can hear the Colonel - no land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth - but it does not make me feel any better. — Philipp Meyer

I am an acquired taste. Do with that what you will. — Lisa Marie Perry

The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative. — Kahlil Gibran

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk. — Margaret Mary Alacoque

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. — David Lloyd George

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. — Socrates

Human intelligence is nothing but the stupidity acquired through repression. — Georg Groddeck

Sentence structure is innate, but whining is acquired. — Woody Allen

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. — Raymond A. Spruance

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me. — David Costabile

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory. — George S. Patton

Changing lifestyle habits acquired over many years is often extremely difficult. — Marie Kondo

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More

Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry. — Enrique Pena Nieto

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time. — Karl Marx

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory — Leo Tolstoy

Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired. — Criss Jami

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. — Laozi

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong

When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way — Sunday Adelaja

She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears. — Gloria Steinem

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. — Romano Prodi

Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..) — Ikechukwu Joseph

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. — Patricia Hampl

Transformation is an acquired taste - not for the faint of heart. — Bob Anderson

It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. — Pliny The Elder

Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality. — Sigmund Freud

Love is a given, hatred is acquired. — Douglas Horton

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. — Dave Eggers

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk. — Yves Klein

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith. — John Bevere

Why do you even have jewelry?" she asked. "You don't wear any."
"It seems I acquired it for you. — Erin Kellison

The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. — Julie B. Beck

Since all premodern state ideology was inseparable from religion, warfare inevitably acquired a sacral element. — Karen Armstrong

As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel. — Victor Hugo

Action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. — Idries Shah

Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living. — Eraldo Banovac

When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism. — Tansy Rayner Roberts

Fortunately, Captain Helena Thorn had acquired a reputation for an eclectic taste in sexual companions and a fast turnover — Sophie Angmering

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. — Erich Fromm

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods. — Empedocles

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. — Katharine Graham

Ceviche is an acquired taste, a phrase which here means something you don't like the first few times you eat it ... — Lemony Snicket

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes. — Gilbert Adair

The desire for her was a taste he had acquired with the first sip. What would become of him when he could no longer drink from her sweet well? — Deana James

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two. — Adam Levine

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. — Prudentius

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped. — Lao-Tzu

A godly woman's true adornment can't be bought at a department store or acquired in the beauty shop. — Tony Evans

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. — Stella Gibbons

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A.S. Byatt

The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature". — Ian Gardner

The devil had not only acquired a monopoly of the good music and the good fun, but has of late acquired a controlling interest in the good writing. — Ambrose Bierce

Science which is acquired unwillingly, soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner, is more lasting. — Saint Basil

Living according to God's standards is an acquired taste. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself. — William Blake

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. — Julius Lester

Japanese had reported sinking her so many times that she had acquired an additional sobriquet, "the Galloping Ghost of the Oahu Coast. — William F. Halsey

I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. — James Madison

To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System. — Luther L. Bohanon

I enjoyed my formal education but I appreciate my acquired specific knowledge alot. — Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge. — Ludwik Fleck

We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture — Jacque Fresco

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. — Carl Jung

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. — Jim Crace

confidence is acquired, developed. — David J. Schwartz

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. — Denis Diderot

It is necessary to analyze all the restricting beliefs and complexes, which we acquired in childhood, from family, school and society — Sunday Adelaja

By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey

Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work. — J.G. Holland