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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: Acquired Age Collection Common Common Sense Eighteen Prejudices Sense

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My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Acquired Books Could Electrical Experiments Get Hands Hold Knowledge Make Manner Methodical My Own Own Picked Subjects Up

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Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Acquired Articulate Born Child Consequently Deaf Fact Hearing How Instruction Learns Medium Never

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I grew up in South Africa without a television; there was no television, and the year after I left, television arrived in South Africa, so I have never really acquired a taste for watching television.

~Alice Krige

Topics: Acquired Africa After Arrived Grew Left Never Really South South Africa Taste Television Up Watching Watching Television Without Year

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War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

~Alva Myrdal

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I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Acquired Arabic Became Bit Born Brazilian British Citizenship English Even Everything Family French German Greek Had Italian Languages Many Members People Seven Speak Subsequently Turkish Uncommon I Was Born

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

~Andrew Carnegie

Topics: Acquired Affairs Born Control Immense Power Reverie Secret Were You Your Yourself

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I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.

~Arjun Rampal

Topics: Acquired Black Coffee Green Intend Keeps Like Little Metabolism Mind Occasional Sugar Taste Tea Up While

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Two conditions of self-sustaining growth are that a country has acquired a cadre of domestic entrepreneurs and administrators and, secondly, that it has attained to adequate savings and taxable capacity.

~Arthur Lewis

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

~Avicenna

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