#acquire

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden. ↗

— Isaac Watts

#called #come #depart #down #government

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#kind #legitimacy #preparations #war

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#also #because #bit #characters #depth

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#achieve #acquired #along #amount #effect

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

It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened. ↗

— Dave Reichert

#basic #company #controlling #diligence #due

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. ↗

— Elihu Root

#characteristics #contribute #departure #fact #human

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

#age #discipline #save #thought #through