#acquire

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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

— Isaac Watts

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This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire. ↗

— Mark Akenside

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I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. ↗

— Tori Amos

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The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past seven years, although many of them had been targeted for acquisition for more than a quarter century. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. ↗

— Aristotle

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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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