Quotes with acquire

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  • Edmund Burke It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Aristotle It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Aristotle Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Anwar Sadat Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
    Anwar Sadat
    Egyptian politician (1918 - 1981)
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  • Dale Carnegie Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Samuel Johnson No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Marie Henri Beyle One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl Rogers The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
    Carl Rogers
    American psychologist (1902 - 1987)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Ben Horowitz The laws of business physics have been broken in terms of how many customers you can acquire and how fast. No one in history has ever acquired 450 million customers in the same amount of time that WhatsApp did.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Baba Kalyani 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
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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