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
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
Thomas Hardy
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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South 
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We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
Tina Weymouth
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It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it.
William H. Seward
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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
Alva Myrdal
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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet
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Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
Albert Claude
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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
Cyril Connolly
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Popular Acquired Authors
Albert EinsteinLucius Annaeus SenecaMarcus Tullius Cicero PlatoEmile M. CioranLord ChesterfieldJames MadisonThomas PaineKarl MarxDenis DiderotCyril ConnollyErich FrommDouglas HortonEdward BondTitus Maccius Plautus
Thomas HardyThomas B. MacaulayJared DiamondDerek JacobiEsther WilliamsWilla Cather StendhalJoseph RotblatAndrew CarnegieMarc MaronMatthew SimpsonJohn WoodenTina WeymouthElihu RootJoseph Franklin Rutherford
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