#acquisition

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#any #costly #imagine #infinitely #iranian

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. ↗

— Anne Seward

#attention #bestowed #cannot #compositions #countrymen

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#education #educational-enrichment #educational-inequity #knowledge-acquisition #learning

For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#best #countries #ebay #expansion #global

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#education #facts #how #intellectual #learning

And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#acquisition #also #business #department #fighter

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing. ↗

— Susan George

#acquisitions #actually #called #course #downsizing

I was never much of a one to win prizes... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#certainly #i #much #never #placed

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#attention #directed #early #exploring #government

We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size. ↗

— David Milne

#any #commitment #consider #form #future