#acquire

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#authority #come #end #hangs #least

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it. ↗

— Eknath Easwaran

#building #day #every #every day #just

I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there. ↗

— Roland Emmerich

#actually #articles #behind #book #checked

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#acquired taste #complicates #free #instinctively #left

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. ↗

— G. Stanley Hall

#even #future #given #heredity #impossible

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#almost #any #creed #cult #into

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#began #day #development #i #interests

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#acute #arts #external #great #great talent

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. ↗

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

#ambiguous #finished #got #life #once

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#boys and girls #look #lovely #makes #nature