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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
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.
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.
Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us.
Whether it's an innate ability or an acquired way of regarding the world around us, being labeled as funny can only be accepted as a compliment.
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
There is every reason for being cautious about founding new universities till India has digested Her newly acquired freedom.
I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.
In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.
Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.
Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.
It is not so easy to obtain a reputation by a perfect work as to enhance the value of an indifferent one by a reputation already acquired.
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
The average mind is easily content with inherited and acquired things, or with the dicta of parents and teachers, because it is much easier to imitate than to create.
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory
Facebook has long been part of surveillance programs, long before it acquired WhatsApp.
Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.
Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.
I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you're born with it. My brother is gay, and we knew when he was two.
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.
What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk?
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.
When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.
Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
It is a blessing not yet to have acquired that over-keen, diagnostic, misanthropic eye, and to be able to look at people and things trustfully when one first sees them.
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.
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
Create a Vision Board .. pictures of what you want to attract .. every day look at it and get into the feeling state of already having acquired these wants.
Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.
The day I acquired the habit of consciously pronouncing the words "thank you", I felt I had gained possession of a magic wand capable of transforming everything.
Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
You could say that as I've gotten more mature, I've acquired more manure.
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.
[Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]
We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
...talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.
All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Strength of character may be acquired at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".
Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.
Taste is acquired. You may have to unlearn a taste for chocolate or ice cream.
Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.
Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.
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.
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.
While soy milk is an acquired taste, I prefer almond, cashew and coconut milk.
Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.
If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.
