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41 " She was dark-haired, fierce; she wore two drop earrings made of crystal; her face was a pure oval tickled with dimples; her skin was golden; and her laugh was like a fire in the night. But on her face you could also read the concentration of a soul whose life is entirely inward, and a mischievous gravity which acquires a silver patina with age. "
― Muriel Barbery , The Life of Elves
42 " All morality consists in a system of rules, and the essence of all morality is to be sought for in the respect which the individual acquires for these rules. "
43 " Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized. "
44 " There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. "
45 " 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
46 " The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. "
47 " Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. "
― Laurence J. Peter
