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acquisition
«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.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, cradle, cradled, cradles, delight, fifteen, From the Cradle, plain
«The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.»
Author: Laurence Sterne
(Writer)
| About:
Desire,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
acquisition, thirst for knowledge
«The normal condition of man is hard work, self-denial, acquisition and accumulation and as soon as his descendants are freed from the necessity of such exertion, they begin to degenerate sooner or later in both body and mind»
Author: Thomas Mellon
| Keywords:
acquisition, degenerate, denial, descendant, descendants, exertion, freed, self-denial, sooner or later, The Descendants, The Normal
«The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.»
«The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, facts, intellectual, in the main, learning, main
«The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, deduction, deductions, intuition, in operation, operations, rely
«Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquire, acquisition, acquisitions, battles, due, revolutions, slaves, solely, undertaken, wars
«We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
acquisition, as many, automatic, decided, exception, habitual, initiative, launch, occur, rooted, securely