#acquaintance

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. ↗

— George Boole

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Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy. ↗

— Belle Boyd

#already #designs #enabled #enemy #federal

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#day #every #every day #i #i do

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

#close #close friends #count #few #friends

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. ↗

— James Prescott Joule

#evident #expressed #god #laws #less

Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year. ↗

— Bill Monroe

#after #any #bluegrass #brought #festivals

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

— Mojo Nixon

#actually #don henley #fast #got #henley

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#although #always #break #disposition #fresh

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends. ↗

— Arlene Francis

#big #friends #our #pass #sieve