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Letter "A" » acquiring
«The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.»
«There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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Knowledge
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«The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty»
«The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.»
Author: Primo Levi
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Author,
Chemist,
Writer)
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End Of The Century,
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Return Of,
The Millennium,
uncertain
«Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them»
«Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.»
«We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.»
«There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from»