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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. -- Hesiod
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. -- Jean Piaget
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. -- Laurence Sterne
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. -- P. G. Wodehouse
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. -- Rene Descartes
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. -- Bertrand Russell
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction. -- Roy Romer
On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. -- Meriwether Lewis
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. -- Jane Austen
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish. -- Stephen Cambone
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.' -- John Cage
SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. -- Seneca the Younger
It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy. -- David Riesman
Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions. -- Daniel Kahneman
So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces. -- Havelock Ellis
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. -- Anna Seward
I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. -- Edward Zwick
The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. -- Charles Bass
One thing I fail to understand in Delhi is how the same parties which as State Governments seek amendments to the Land Acquisition law, suddenly become opponents of the amendments when they are sitting in Delhi. -- Narendra Modi
The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through. -- Whitey Herzog
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice. -- Aleister Crowley
We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services. -- John B. Larson
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performanceâ?: â??The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance. -- K. Anders Ericsson
The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit. -- Aristotle
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. -- Seneca the Younger
We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me. -- Arthur Blank
Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them. -- Marc Andreessen
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders. -- Dilip Shanghvi
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can. -- Orison Swett Marden
Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success. -- Vinod Khosla
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned. -- John Moody
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region. -- Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
The rise of the presidency began with the Louisiana Purchase, which in 1803 doubled the land mass of the United States. History taught the framers that, just as Rome changed from republic to empire with conquest of new lands, territorial acquisition would lead to the centralization of political power. -- Noah Feldman
We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to have countries who are in a security bind, if you like, or perceive themselves to be in security bind to look for acquisition of nuclear weapons. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
WhatsApp is both disrupting and demonetizing the entire wireless industry, and now the Facebook acquisition provides the infrastructure needed for WhatsApp to begin offering voice calls. So instead of people paying on average $80 per month, users only have to pay $0.99 per year for the same services. Wireless carriers, beware. -- Peter Diamandis
The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing. -- Barry Eisler
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary. -- Margaret Edson
All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth -- Socrates
Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. -- J. K. Rowling
Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace. -- Louis R. Chenevert
Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something. -- Vernon Howard
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Education is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation. -- Helen and Scott Nearing
In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament. -- Frank Moore Colby
. . . Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. -- Jean Berko Gleason
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. -- Leo Tolstoy
Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness. -- Alan Cohen
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge -- Edgar Allan Poe
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life. -- Rick Warren
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. -- George S. Clason
Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. -- Robert Bunsen
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. -- Marcel Proust
Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance. -- Wendell Berry
Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. -- Chris Matakas
CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs. -- Jay Samit
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them -- Seneca
For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth. -- Eric Linklater
the ultimate distance and the real difference between financial acquisition and financial disbursement if financial planning -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. -- Seraphim of Sarov
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. -- Michael Gove
The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles. -- Epicurus
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. -- John James Ingalls
A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge. -- Max Planck
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. -- J. K. Rowling
Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it. -- Charles Elachi
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed. -- Philip James Bailey
A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. -- Horace Mann
M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations. -- Sam Altman
I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. -- Annie Lennox
We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions -- Richard I of England
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage -- Ramana Maharshi
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity... -- George Herbert
For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me. -- David Costabile
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. -- Epicurus
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative. -- Larry Ellison
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. -- Jeremy Taylor
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. -- Pietro Metastasio
Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith. -- Macarius of Egypt
The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company. -- Baba Kalyani
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character. -- Grenville Kleiser
The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race. -- Ernst Mach
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. -- Joseph Conrad
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition. -- Maria Mitchell
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success. -- Anita Elberse
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies. -- Kate Morton
I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood. -- Kenneth Branagh
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. -- Constantin Stanislavski
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression. -- Charles Taylor
There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California. -- James K. Polk
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power. -- Robert Greene
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things. -- Lev S. Vygotsky
But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more. -- Arthur Hughes
Our society puts more weight on success through acquisition of temporal things, but God requires us to long after those things that have an eternal value. -- Ashley N. Sauls
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition. -- Robert M. Hutchins
As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way. -- Kara Swisher
My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom. -- Kevin Vanhoozer
As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character. -- William Mathews
Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information. -- William George Jordan
God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness. -- Nikolai A. Berdyaev
My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent. -- Elon Musk
In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God. -- Dallin H. Oaks
If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education and skills acquisition. -- Strive Masiyiwa
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue. -- Charles William Eliot

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