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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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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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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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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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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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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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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. ↗

— Andrew Young

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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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