#acquire

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. ↗

— Saul Williams

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In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally. ↗

— Andrew Gould

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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

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

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

— Taylor Caldwell

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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

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