#acquire

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

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In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained. ↗

— Phil Condit

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Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. ↗

— Peter Latham

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Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art. ↗

— Adolf Loos

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Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. ↗

— David Wilmot

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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. ↗

— George Sand

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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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