#acquired

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

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

#books #facets #knowledge #learning #men

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#act #bring #civilization #destroy #development

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. ↗

— Henri Rousseau

#cannot #change #dint #i #imagine

Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. ↗

— Yeardley Smith

#acquired #dead #disney #hallmark #homogenized

The press these days should be rather careful about its role. We may have acquired some tendencies about over-involvement that we had better overcome. ↗

— Katherine Graham

#acquired #better #careful #days #had

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

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We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth. ↗

— Albert Claude

#birth #cell #entered #inventory #mansion

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

#artist #beauty #conception #direct #expression

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #behavior #concern #conscious #himself