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

~David Lloyd George

Topics: Acquired Conferred Habit Liberty Merely Privilege

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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

Topics: Acquired Cannot Either Good Good Taste Imitated Mind Modesty Taste Why

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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

Topics: Acquired Commands Force Him Lasts Long Obey Only Over Power Prevails Those Violence Who

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It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!

~Derek Jacobi

Topics: Acquired Comforts Days Difficult Edge Hard Incredibly Life Living Modern Modern Life Much Nets Off Often People Provides Realize Safety Those Us Very Were

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Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

~Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Topics: Acquired America Anyone Attention Course Doing Draws Himself Imitation Individual Must Others Resist Suspicion Tendency Viewed Who

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Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

~Douglas Horton

Topics: Acquired Given Hatred Love Love Is

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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Acquired Duty Ethic Had Honor Loyalty Me Meaning Military Old School Some South Spent Still Time Today Traditional Upbringing Ways

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The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Abroad Acquired Bores Empire English Punishment Sent

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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Acquired Animal Behavior Concern Conscious He Himself His Inner Inner Life Life Observer Original Others Outside Response Some Statements States Ways

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I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door.

~Ehud Barak

Topics: Acquired Alone Beloved Door Few Former Height Israeli Large Out Parts Politicians Politics Public Quite Rivals Room Say Sit Some Stars Them Themselves They Say Today Were Who Whom Would

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