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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Money, Sometimes, Difficult

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

Knowledge, Wisdom, Study

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Life, Good, Government

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

Men, Art, Difficult

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.
William Lyon Phelps

Nature, Sense, Lovely

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.
Daniel Radcliffe

Self, Another, Fame

Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar Sadat

After, Seek, Enslaved

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.
Liam Neeson

Fighting, Old, Maturity

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
Carl Rogers

True, Friendly, Facts

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.
Edward de Bono

Young, Sense, Themselves

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.
Carlos Ghosn

May, Give, Intuition

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

Law, Cannot, Actual

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
Xun Zi

Nature, Bad, Become

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Alfred North Whitehead

God, Become, Makes

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser

Knowledge, School

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
Sam Ewing

Nothing, Everything, After

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
Lech Walesa

Education, Society, Find

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden

Self, Ourselves, Reputation

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
James J. Corbett

Patience, Simple, Difficult

As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.
Jeffrey Kluger

Time, Experience, Moving

I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.
Shaquille O'Neal

Family, Win, While

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Isaac Watts

Government, May, Down

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
Jeb Bush

Knowledge, Between, Economic

But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
Condoleezza Rice

Trying, United, Prove

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
Vince Cable

Daily, Trying, Rich

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.
Taylor Caldwell

Education, Work, Hard

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
Hugh Mackay

Best, Child, Possible

Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making every effort to acquire nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, and establishing an enormous terror network together with Syria in Lebanon.
Ariel Sharon

Together, Effort, Making

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it.
Michael Morpurgo

Love, Great, Parents

With paper printed books, you have certain freedoms. You can acquire the book anonymously by paying cash, which is the way I always buy books. I never use a credit card. I don't identify to any database when I buy books. Amazon takes away that freedom.
Richard Stallman

Freedom, Book, Away

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