Acquiring Quotes

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I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and… — Kevin Bacon
President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. — John O. Brennan
The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology.… — John O. Brennan
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains… — Albert Camus
In the same way that we today think that the slave trade and colonial exploitation were inhuman and inconceivably bestial ways of acquiring riches, there… — Erik Dammann
Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind. — Mahatma Gandhi
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the case,… — Charles Darwin
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at… — William James
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any… — Adolf Hitler
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience… — Greg LeMond
The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and… — Seraphim of Sarov
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Therefore, in this world he must prepare himself for the life beyond. That which he needs in the world of the Kingdom must be obtained… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security. — Adolf Hitler
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring… — Alexis Carrel
There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process… — Wallace D. Wattles
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester

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