#acquisition

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country. ↗

— Edward Zwick

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The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#alone #deduction #intuition #knowledge #must

When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#acquisitions #california #compromises #concessions #conquest

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

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services. ↗

— John Larson

#able #acquisitions #basically #capitalize #come

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

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned. ↗

— John Moody

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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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