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In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Acquire Books Could Day Feel Like Packs Rather Smoking Someone Tendency Terrible Two Vice Wish I Wish I Feel

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The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: About Acquire Always Cloud Gun Here How Mushroom Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Problem Quickly Saddam Smoking Some Uncertainty Want Weapons Will

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But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: Acquire Caution Destruction He Hussein Incumbent Just Mass Mass Destruction Prove Saddam Saddam Hussein States Trying United United States Want Weapons

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The point of college is more to acquire skills than to acquire domain knowledge. One of the skills that is going to be most necessary: you have to be able to read with rigor and write with clarity. You have to be able to communicate. To make an argument, whether it's in a written piece or in front of a group of people.

~Dan Pink

Topics: Able Acquire Argument Clarity College Communicate Domain Front Going Group Knowledge Make More Most Necessary People Piece Point Read Rigor Skills Than Whether Write Written You

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Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Topics: Acquire Agencies Been Birth Conservatives Endowed Good Government Healthy Liberals Life Namely Powers Seem Skepticism Somehow Unable

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That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

~Daniel Radcliffe

Topics: Acquire Another Does Fame Self You

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The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Acquire Black Black Community Blacks Business Capital Children Community Demise Driven Had Hard Life Limited Made Most Pass Political Political Life Prestige Professional Property Reconstruction Rose Spheres Were

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I have a few pieces that I got for my birthdays or that I bought for myself: I acquire things that speak to me and put them on my wall. When I see things I like, I just know.

~Dasha Zhukova

Topics: Acquire Birthdays Bought Few Got Just Know Like Me Myself Pieces Put See Speak Them Things Wall I See

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The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.

~David Autor

Topics: Acquire Creating Effective Enable Good Investing Investment Long-Term Most Opportunities Ourselves People Policies Schools Situations Skills Successful Them Where Will

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Trump's opinions on the Iraq War have been as erratic as his opinions on other foreign policy matters - such as his careless position to think more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.

~David Brock

Topics: Acquire Been Careless Countries Erratic Foreign Foreign Policy His Iraq Iraq War Matters More Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Opinions Other Policy Position Should Think Trump War Weapons

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