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For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth. — Eric Linklater

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition. — Seneca The Younger

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them — Seneca.

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge — Edgar Allan Poe

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies. — Kate Morton

The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. — Ha-Joon Chang

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment. — John James Ingalls

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything. — Bryant McGill

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. — J.K. Rowling

I've never opened a glass of champagne on any acquisition. Bankers do that. — Ivan Glasenberg

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles. — Epicurus

As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way. — Kara Swisher

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

The acquisition of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use, and that use is their contribution to a common and shared life — John Dewey

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and
approval. — Wayne Dyer

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility. — Michael Gove

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition. — Maria Mitchell

The most important part of any acquisition is your ability to culturally integrate the people in the companies you acquire and your company. — Baba Kalyani

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient. — Yotam Ottolenghi

I cannot think it either Vanity or Virtue to acknowledge, that the Acquisition and communication of Knowledge, are the sole Entertainment of my Life — John Adams

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth — Socrates

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it. — Benjamin Netanyahu

In any case, age is nothing more than the acquisition of Temporal Perspective! Oh, and rheumatism too, I must add. — Vera Nazarian

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative. — Larry Ellison

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. — Leo Tolstoy

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race. — Ernst Mach

Happiness is not the acquisition of anything; it's the understanding of something. — Vernon Howard

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage — Ramana Maharshi

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value. — Gary Vaynerchuk

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary. — Margaret Edson

Remote Sensing is defined as the acquisition of information about an object without being in physical contact with it. — Charles Elachi

I was never much of a one to win prizes ... and certainly never placed too much value on their acquisition. — Annie Lennox

He was obsessed not only with the acquisition of knowledge, but with its retention. — George R R Martin

The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages. — Stephen D. Krashen

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. — Laurence Sterne

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. — J.K. Rowling

The whole point of collecting is the thrill of acquisition, which must be maximized, and maintained at all costs. — John Baxter

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me. — Arthur Blank

It seems some CEOs who pay extremely large acquisition premiums ... come to believe their own press. — Chip Heath

Violent ground-acquisition games such as football are in fact a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war. — Robert Downey Jr.

The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — Marcel Proust

The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few. — Dalai Lama XIV

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. — Jean Piaget

Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness. — Alan Cohen

Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition. — Robert M. Hutchins

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The — Laurence Sterne

Mere acquisition isn't enough to establish a good habit — Gretchen Rubin

Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes. — Seo Do-young

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution. — Jean Berko Gleason

Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. — George S. Clason

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions. — Samuel Johnson

A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart. — Horace Mann

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them. — Marc Andreessen

The totality of utterances that can be made in a speech community is the language of that speech community. — Leonard Bloomfield

My goal as a theologian is to move beyond the acquisition of knowledge to its application in real life: in a word, I want to get wisdom. — Kevin Vanhoozer

All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth — Plato

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge. — Albert Einstein

the acquisition of knowledge without understanding is becoming increasingly inadequate — Knud Illeris

Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace. — Louis R. Chenevert

But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest — Leo Tolstoy

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions — Richard I Of England

For sure, I'm an acquired taste. People who've had that acquisition, who've acquired it, are quite surprised when they see me. — David Costabile

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations. — Sam Altman

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead

When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success. — Anita Elberse

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. — Rene Descartes

I think every acquisition is unique and different. The best strategy is to listen to the founders and follow their lead. — Brian Acton

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge. — Max Planck

Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders. — Dilip Shanghvi

Relationships, not achievements or the acquisition of things, are what matters most in life. — Rick Warren

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of a good book. — Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. — Epicurus

The acquisition of knowledge has become too intimidating a prospect for them, so they shun it in favour of faith. — Mark Hodder

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it. — John Wooden

Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. — P.G. Wodehouse

Football is a wargame of land acquisition. — Ilona Andrews

IT is the business's competitive differentiator to customer acquisition and retention. — Pearl Zhu

These steps are: Deep Observation (The Passive Mode), Skills Acquisition (The Practice Mode), and Experimentation (The Active Mode). Keep — Robert Greene

Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning. — Stephen D. Krashen

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. — Hesiod

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith. — Macarius Of Egypt

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue. — Chris Matakas

The best part of writing is not the communication of knowledge to other people, but the acquisition and synthesizing of knowledge for oneself. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem. — Chuck Palahniuk

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge. — Bryant McGill

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. — Pietro Metastasio

Reading is the beginning of knowledge acquisition. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament. — Frank Moore Colby

The child's reluctance to speak for the first few months of his residence in a new country is not pathological, but normal. — Stephen D. Krashen

An end to our getting is the only end to our losses. — Publilius Syrus

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction. — Jeremy Taylor

It is the skills that you have acquired through difficulties that will give you the desired result. — Sunday Adelaja