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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

- Robert A. Heinlein

When learning to play the piano, one studies various types of pieces. When one acquires the basic knowledge of these pieces, one has reached sonatine. It`s not really control, but it marks the end of first stage of training.

- Takeshi Kitano

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

- Andrew Carnegie

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

- Raymond Queneau

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

- Alfredo Mesa

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

- Alma Jones

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

- Andrei Illarionov

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

- Andy Violette

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

- Robert A. Heinlein

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

- Brock Blassingame