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«For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.»
Author: Spencer Tracy | About: Books | Keywords: acquires, tossed
«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»
«Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.»
«A real 'karma-yogi', who first acquires knowledge and then works for the welfare of people, quite naturally becomes popular and famous. There is no enemy of such a man but even if there are, he is able to vanquish them. His popularity in the society increases on account of his successes and good deeds. »
Author: Sam Veda | Keywords: acquires, karma, vanquish
«As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | Keywords: abandons, acquires
«By living in the company of learned souls a man acquires knowledge and becomes well cultured. »
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: acquires, Company of
«During the majority of his waking hours he is in close association with his pupils, who are admittedly his inferiors, and so he rapidly acquires the familiar, self-satisfied professorial attitude of mind»
«He who is not industrious acquires nothing.»
Author: Rig Veda | Keywords: acquires, industrious
«A person who is respectful towards his land, civilization and language, attains greatness and he acquires all the happiness of life. His deeds should be such that makes the motherland, the culture and language proud.»
«A scholar is always praised. He who attains knowledge also acquires capabilities to vanquish his enemies. »
Author: Rig Veda | Keywords: acquires, capabilities, vanquish