#acquire

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When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation.


Adelbert von Chamisso


#art #attention #commanding #conversation #easily

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

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#business #control #equality #excessive #exclusive

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.


Ron Jaworski


#bowl #get #guy #i #i think

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.


Gertrude Jekyll


#alone #also #arrangement #decorative #gain

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.


Xun Zi


#bad #become #corrected #moral #moral principles

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


#acquired #gives #natural #natural right #personal

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

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.


Anais Nin


#beings #complete #developments #few #fragment