“So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions — Richard I of England Copy Share Image
Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen Copy Share Image
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative. — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I credit Google for having the foresight to identify threats to its main business of selling advertising against search results. The potential… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages… — Charles Taylor Copy Share Image
Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created… — Lloyd Dorfman Copy Share Image
But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer… — Arthur Hughes Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Providence has decreed that those common acquisitions, money, gems, plate, noble mansions, and dominion, should be sometimes bestowed on the indolent and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
The essence of intercultural education is the acquisition of empathy-the ability to see the world as others see it, and to allow… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession… Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction;… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean. As… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
At most corporations if you make an acquisition and it turns out to be a disaster, all the paperwork and presentations that… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“But any acquisition that doesn't correspond to the labour expended is dishonest” — Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition. — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
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