Quotes with acquired

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  • Beth Ditto My size has helped make me an amazing performer too. The cliche of the Funny Fat Friend: I absolutely was that character - I am that character... It's a complicated bag of tools I acquired, and I've put them all to work onstage.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • E. M. Cioran Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Bernard Mandeville No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Cyril Connolly No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Avicenna Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Thomas Hardy Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Robert Lynd The habit of courtesy, when once acquired, is almost impossible to get rid of.
    Robert Lynd
    American sociologist (1892 - 1970)
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  • Bing Gordon The Internet Treasure companies tend to go public rather than get acquired, although there are clear exceptions, like Instagram, YouTube, Skype and PayPal.
    Bing Gordon
    American video game executive and technology venture capitalist
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  • Avicenna The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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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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  • John Wooden There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Alva Myrdal War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Lewis Mumford We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Albert Claude We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.
    Adelbert von Chamisso
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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