#acquired

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics. ↗

— Elihu Root

#characteristics #contribute #departure #fact #human

It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard! ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#comforts #days #difficult #edge #hard

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#almost #always #consisting #cost #false

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#beginnings #conveniently #culture #dated #first

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

— Yeardley Smith

#acquired #dead #disney #hallmark #homogenized

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#begins #classroom #closest #convey #family

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

— Cyril Connolly

#else #mind #quality #someone #taste

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

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

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