#acquire

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained. ↗

— Phil Condit

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Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level. ↗

— Bill Dixon

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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. ↗

— Andrew Young

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Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#alone #confidence #dearest #friends #god

Man loves everything that satisfies his comfort. He hates everything that wants to draw him out of his acquired and secured position and that disturbs him. Thus he loves the house and hates art. ↗

— Adolf Loos

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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ↗

— Karl Marx

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Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico. ↗

— David Wilmot

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