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acquisitions
«The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.»
Author: George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
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acquisitions, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, meditation
«Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.»
Author: Konstantin Stanislavsky
(Actor)
| About:
Success
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acquisition, acquisitions, evanescent, poignant, shading, shadings, subtleties, transient
«Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.»
Author: Aleister Crowley
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acquisition, acquisitions, analyzed, anthropology, decently, enlightened, philosophical, philosophical theory, sweep away, swept, Swept Away, theory-based
«Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
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acquisitions, activities, spanned, spanning, spans
«It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ''culture.''»
Author: John Cage
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acquisition, acquisitions, distraction, distractions, entertainment, misuse, perform, piece of music
«The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Education
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acquisition, acquisitions, facts, intellectual, in the main, learning, main
«The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Knowledge
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acquisition, acquisitions, deduction, deductions, intuition, in operation, operations, rely
«The most desirable mode of education. . . . is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.»
Author: William Godwin
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accompanied, acquisitions, bespeak, bespeaks, bespoke, most desirable
«He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth, grain and knowledge, and in taking his meals, will be happy»
«The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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achieving, acquisitions, advancing, neighbors, relearn, relearning, spending