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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.
Once you have your appetite well under control, start to acquire your dream figure with exercise.
In the long-term, security comes from an asset you create or acquire, not a position in someone else's asset.
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
It felt great to acquire rock-solid, fab abs, toned shoulders and great legs.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.
Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
A disease of the mind, [whose] germ is the idea that one may learn that which is valuable, or in any way acquire virtue, by the process of being shown things.
If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.
[On her troubled relationships with her daughters:] You can acquire enemies. Why give birth to them?
One of the problems with the civil service is the way in which people are shuffled such that they either do not acquire expertise or they are moved out of areas they really know to do something else.
The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.
Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
You can acquire some measure of knowledge from various research techniques, but nothing beats living, breathing, and feeling the same things your prospect (customers) do.
Some public officials are blessed - you can't acquire this, but you are blessed with the gift of empathy, being able to empathize with those who are suffering.
If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.
A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom.
Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.
You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount.
Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.
Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.
Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.
In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .
It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.
Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.
I don't spend my life making money to spend tomorrow, or to acquire possessions.
You can't go to the pharmacy to buy a pack of experience, you have to be in those games in order to acquire that experience.
So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
In midlife, I feel that my tendency to acquire books is rather like someone smoking two packs a day: it's a terrible vice that I wish I could shuck.
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the responsibility to acquire information, digest and use it to understand what you can.
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.
One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts.
To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.
We will see growth in the U.S., and we will selectively acquire in the U.S., but we prefer to use our global opportunity.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Some work hard to acquire money only to find in the end that money acquired them.
In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.
