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The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

~Eric S. Raymond

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Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

~Erich Fromm

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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

~Esther Williams

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Truly a man does not live by bread alone. A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Acquired Alone Appearance Bread Does Down Good Great Live Man Months Name Nothing Over Pay Preferred Riches Still Truly Two

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Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

~Fidel Castro

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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

~Frank Chodorov

Topics: Acquired Authority Come End Least Never Political Political Power Power State Temporarily Wars

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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Acquired Else Find Finding Great Great Part Information Looking Part Something Something Else Up Way

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The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Acquired Alpha Also Animal Behavior Charge Controlling Dating Example Female Field Flirting For Example Meaning New Opinions Originated Own Patience Term Terms Used Who Woman Women

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If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

~Gelett Burgess

Topics: Acquired Check Dead Discarded Few Last Last Few Years Major May New New One Opinion Pulse Years You Your

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In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

~George Emil Palade

Topics: Acquired Avalanche Components Discoveries Early Electron Faced Field Made Near Newly Opened Possible Problem Those Wealth Were 1950S

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