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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein

Funny Age Sense Collection Common Eighteen Acquired Prejudices

No difficulty can discourage, no obstacle dismay, no trouble dishearten the man who has acquired the art of being alive. Difficulties are but dares of fate, obstacles but hurdles to try his skill, troubles but bitter tonics to give him strength; and he rises higher and looms greater after each encounter with adversity. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Art Adversity Strength Man Fate Try Hurdles Trouble Difficulties Difficulty Alive Bitter Dares Give Rises Higher Troubles He Obstacle Obstacles Him Greater Discourage His Encounter Being After Acquired Dismay Skill Who Each

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. John Wooden

Faith Prayer Peace Mind Important Peace Of Mind True Most Without Arriving Essential The Most Important Cannot Which Acquired Many Things

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power. Vernon Howard

Strength Personality Dangerous Dictatorship Tyranny Cruelty Power Think Additional Hesitate Characteristics Weaknesses Outcomes Folks Some Somehow Seize Individual Wrong Powerful Because False Disguised Acquired Notion

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression. H. P. Lovecraft

Savage Great Will Long Down Every State Rule Plunging Object More Ardently Cast Previous Individual Argue Wished Because Denied Motive Just Repression After Anything Break Acquired Aside Then Inhibition Sufficiently Desired

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened. Wilma Rudolph

Never Give Up Day Every Day Determination Matter Sense Every Else Ran Would Spirit Give Never Up Happened Acquired

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. Kate Chopin

Art Soul Own Possess Gifts Must Absolute Moreover Courageous Been Effort Artist Which Succeed Acquired Much Many

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato

Knowledge Mind Compulsion Hold Which Acquired

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. H. Rap Brown

Teacher Family Knowledge People School Job Responsibility First Muslim Classroom Student He Household Him Himself Masters Within His Begins Closest Convey Acquired Then Teach Who

It's fortunate that I am a writer, because that has helped me understand the properties of words. They are what have made life complex. In the battle for status in the animal kingdom, power and aggressiveness have been all-important. But among humans, once they acquired speech, all that changed. Tom Wolfe

Life Me Animal Battle Words Made Power Changed Once Complex Status Kingdom Properties Writer Because Understand Am Been Acquired Aggressiveness Fortunate Helped Among Humans Speech

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom. A. R. Rahman

Wisdom Knowledge Sometimes Put Within Screen Acquired Your

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art. Adolf Loos

Art Man Everything Draw Out Secured Hates He Thus House Him Comfort His Wants Loves Acquired Satisfies Position

I was born into a Turkish family that had acquired Italian citizenship. Many members of the family subsequently became British, French, Brazilian, and German, so there was a bit of everything. It was not uncommon for people in the family to speak seven languages: English, French, Ladino, Italian, Turkish, Arabic, and even Greek. Andre Aciman

Family People Speak Seven Everything Bit Members Arabic Citizenship Born Uncommon Had French Became Italian German Greek Subsequently Brazilian Turkish Acquired Languages English Many Even British

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. Bernard de Mandeville

Quality World Passion Hypocrisy Every Our Easily Seeds More Habit Sooner Nobody Principle Learned Without Nor Deny Than Hearts Any Them Acquired Us Sentiments Act Thing Innate

When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one. Christopher Nolan

Negative Projected Look Looks Print Inferior Against Acquired Original Image

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

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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. Karl Marx

Money Value Living Add Virtue Ability Lays Occult Least Itself Eggs Offspring Commodities Being Golden Acquired Capital Forth Brings

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The person who is developing freely and naturally arrives at a spiritual equilibrium in which he is master of his actions, just as one who has acquired physical poise can move freely. Maria Montessori

Spiritual Master Physical Poise He Developing Freely Equilibrium His Person Move Just Which Acquired Naturally Who Actions

The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature. Nostradamus

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge Learning World Men Reading Books Facets More Only Various Studying Reading Books Them Acquired Much Necessary

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