#acquire

We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit. ↗

— Sam Ewing

#after #born #everything #into #nothing

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. ↗

— Nathaniel Branden

#esteem #ourselves #reputation #self #self esteem

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#art #come #emotion #into #measure

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bank #bosses #british #daily #dodge

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#aesthetic #alienated #being #clear #consciousness

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#acquire #actor #detail #ellis #good

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that. ↗

— Michael King

#definitely #going #harder #light #lot

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ↗

— Sidney Lanier

#acquired #endeavor #rests #through #upon

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. ↗

— James Madison

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I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. ↗

— Marc Maron

#acquired taste #always #been #handful #i