Acquired Quotes

524 quotes by 422 authors

At the time we acquired Viacom, everyone said I had overpaid. But even at today's depressed prices, that investment is worth billions. Everyone was saying… — Sumner Redstone
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which… — Edward Bernays
How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has… — Andre Bazin
Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can… — Hugo Munsterberg
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy. — Alva Myrdal
Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways… — Edward Thorndike
Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed. — Hannah More
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for… — Seneca the Younger
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities… — Edward Burnett Tylor
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is… — Robert B. Parker
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory. — George S. Patton
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only… — Ayn Rand
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
I got the idea for Netflix after my company was acquired. I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late… — Reed Hastings
Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune… — Thabo Mbeki
I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of… — George Whitefield
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired. — Emile de Girardin
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired. — Stella Gibbons
We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also… — Dan Burton
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see… — R. Buckminster Fuller

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