#acquisition

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

— Bryant McGill

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

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

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#against #complex #guard #influence #military-industrial

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