#acquire

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

— Alfred North Whitehead

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It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles. ↗

— Xun Zi

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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

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In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings. ↗

— Ernst Lubitsch

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Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option. ↗

— Susan Rice

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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ↗

— Yeardley Smith

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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

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The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. ↗

— Katherine Graham

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