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“The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.”

Men Doe Lines Possibility He Man Becoming Pages Familiar Acquire Paragraph Illustration Encyclopedia

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.”

Men Way Doe Two Wife Feminism He Man Honor Husband Achievement Glory Jokes Cancer British Cures Thanks Tea Acquire Shed Royal Two Ways Nancy Royal Family

Author:Katha Pollitt

“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”

People Men Stills Process Democracy He Man Higher Cost Prejudice Method Blame Investing Acquire Spite Grades Cost Of Living

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.”

Men Hard Causes He Man Friends Please Reputation Acquire Abandoned Ungrateful

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“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.”

Men Want Real Values Business Trouble He Man Cost Acquire Toil

Author:Adam Smith

“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life.”

“[A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.”

People Men Use Government Law Purpose Freedom Liberty He Man Property Secure Acquire Republic Protected Limbs Discretion Secured Personal Liberty

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself, but to exchange it for other commodities, is equal to the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command. Labour, therefore, is the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities. 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.”

Men Want Mean Persons Real Use Values Trouble He Man Cost Equal Command Acquire Labour Quantity Commodity Toil

Book:The Wealth of Nations

Source: The Wealth of Nations

“The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.”

Men He Man Letting Go Everyday Acquire Something New Tao

Author:Laozi