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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.


Stendhal


#argument #cautious #governed #habit #intense

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


William Lyon Phelps


#boys and girls #look #lovely #makes #nature

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.


Liberty Hyde Bailey


#amount #anyone #bound #concerning #contribution

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.


Mark Akenside


#could #doth #ever #every #experience

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.


Karen Armstrong


#compassion #dancing #day #diligently #knowledge

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We haven't invested in our roads, our bridges, our waste-water systems, our sewer systems. We haven't even maintained the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us.


Michael Bennett


#assets #balance #bridges #built #debt

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.


Henry Bessemer


#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.


David Lloyd George


#conferred #habit #liberty #merely #privilege

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.


Jared Diamond


#africa #although #domestic #domesticated #ethiopia

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.


Denis Diderot


#acquired #commands #force #him #lasts






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