#acquire

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

#because #cannot #easy #free #free life

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #behavior #concern #conscious #himself

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#acquisitions #california #compromises #concessions #conquest

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#always #animation #anything #cartoon #change

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#acquire #animal #become #god #himself

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. ↗

— Esther Williams

#gift #passage #share #time #unless

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

— Saul Williams

#acquired taste #actual #focus #i #language

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

#duty #ethic #had #honor #i

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#allure #america #ample #anecdotal #around