#acquisition

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#desire #ever #increases #knowledge #like

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. ↗

— Jane Austen

#almost #beauty #been #cradle #delight

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me. ↗

— Arthur Blank

#atlanta #commitment #competition #fit #make

Assaults against women and children are assaults against any potential positive future for the world. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#assault #future-generations #gender-equality #equality

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

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #councils #disastrous #exists

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. ↗

— Hesiod

#life #means #miserable #mortals

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

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

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