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I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.


Maria Monk


#any #awe #believed #dead #great

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.


Albert J. Nock


#am #any #constantly #difficult #easy

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.


Leo Ornstein


#aesthetic #begin #enough #estimate #gets

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.


Norman Vincent Peale


#anybody #determines #developing #experience #get

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.


Marcus V. Pollio


#because #corresponding #difficult #greek #harmony

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.


Frederick Pollock


#medieval #quaint #thing

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.


Jackson Pollock


#acquainted #after #aware #been #changes

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.


John Pople


#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.


Erik Qualman


#being #business #buy #colleagues #friends

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.


Elihu Root


#another #another way #better #each #good






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