#acquired

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

Love is a given, hatred is acquired. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#given #hatred #love #love is

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

— Lord Chesterfield

#closet #knowledge #only #world

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level. ↗

— Bill Dixon

#acquired #array #change #due #effect

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

#art #comfort #disturbs #draw #everything

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#kind #legitimacy #preparations #war

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#becomes #dignity #family #felt #forget

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. ↗

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

#acquired taste #car #immediately #private #railroad

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

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ↗

— Joseph Roux

#composed #experience #illusions #our #rather