#acquired

It is true, indeed, that the national domain is ours. It is true it was acquired by the valor and with the wealth of the whole nation. But we hold, nevertheless, no arbitrary power over it. ↗

— William H. Seward

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Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

#investigation #result #save #wisdom

Reality is an acquired taste. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#acquired taste #reality #taste

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. ↗

— Claude Bernard

#knowledge #mediocre #mediocre men #men #most

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#already #america #anyone #attention #course

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ↗

— Willa Cather

#age #basic #before #fifteen #material

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

#beginnings #conveniently #culture #dated #first

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

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The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. ↗

— Edward Bond

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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