Top Acquired Quotes
I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.
Wilma Rudolph
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.
Katherine Graham
I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
Tori Amos
Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an account the florist had.
Frances Rodman
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
Adelbert von Chamisso
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James Madison All Acquired Quotes
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein 
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Esther Williams
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Edward Thorndike
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There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden
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The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.
Eric S. Raymond
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The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
David F. Houston
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
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Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Delphine de Girardin
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Thomas HardyThomas B. MacaulayJared DiamondDerek JacobiEsther WilliamsWilla Cather StendhalJoseph RotblatAndrew CarnegieMarc MaronMatthew SimpsonJohn WoodenTina WeymouthElihu RootJoseph Franklin Rutherford
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