#acquire

Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. ↗

— John Pearson

#birth #carry #common #death #die

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#becomes #dignity #family #felt #forget

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#creates #culture #does #innate #learning

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

#compulsion #hold #knowledge #mind #obtains

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. ↗

— Plautus

#age #capacity #wisdom

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#canada #discussion #late #major #nuclear

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#acquire #blessings #care #friend #greatest

Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve. ↗

— Simin Daneshvar

#best #deserve #give #heart #help

I hope that the German people will never again make the mistake of believing that because the American people are peace-loving, they will sit back hoping for peace if any nation uses force or the threat of force to acquire dominion over other peoples and other governments. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#again #american #american people #any #back

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#deviate #education #extremely #goal #hard