#acquaint

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance. ↗

— George Eliot

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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. ↗

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me. ↗

— Mojo Nixon

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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. ↗

— Novalis

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You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. ↗

— William Hague

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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. ↗

— Hattie McDaniel

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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children. ↗

— Charles Bronson

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Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted. ↗

— William Hamilton Maxwell

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We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

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