#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

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

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#any #arrives #during #immediate #me

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

— Saul Williams

#acquired taste #actual #focus #i #language

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer. ↗

— John Wooden

#arriving #cannot #essential #faith #important

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it. ↗

— Lord Harlech

#britain #disposed #empire #historians #honoured

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few before it got acquired. The problem was we tried to systemize everything and set up perfect procedures. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#before #bureaucratic #company #everything #exciting

Love is a given, hatred is acquired. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#given #hatred #love #love is

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

— Arnold H. Glasow

#conceal #harder #ignorance #knowledge #than

We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. ↗

— John Bolton

#build #capability #could #estimate #fabricate