#acquire

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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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

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I'm very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

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Our bottom line, if you want to call it a red line, president's bottom line has been that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon and we will take no option off the table to ensure that it does not acquire a nuclear weapon, including the military option. ↗

— Susan Rice

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We work to become, not to acquire. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things. ↗

— Tori Amos

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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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