#acquiring

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired. ↗

— William Falconer

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We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

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Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative. ↗

— Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. ↗

— James Madison

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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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