#acquainted

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place. ↗

— Garth Hudson

#bar #bars #become #country #fortunately

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. ↗

— David Hume

#additions #been #beginning #century #continual

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. ↗

— George Ade

#anyone #bad #become #bed #early

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#acquainted #anniversary #attending #australia #children

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. ↗

— Novalis

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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. ↗

— Vernon Howard

#actually #assume #become #breaks #damaging

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. ↗

— Ovid

#acquainted #affliction #am #better #does

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#deny #his #home #indian #people

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine. ↗

— Duke Ellington

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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. ↗

— Virgil

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