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
Lord Chesterfield 
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
Thomas B. Macaulay 
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright
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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
Sara Teasdale
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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.
Matthew Simpson
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield
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The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.
Richard Masur
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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century.
Charles Foster Bass
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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
William Griffith Wilson
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