Acquired Quotes


With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe. - Orville Wright


Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. - Sara Teasdale


While there is an economic impact, they are able to grow the company reasonably... I would say 10 percent in terms of cash earnings this year, but most other companies in that field have been acquired. - James Awad


While living, apparently, as modern men and women, using electric fans and electric irons, telephones and trains, and aeroplanes, when they can afford it, they nourish in their hearts a deep contempt for the childish conceit and bloated hopes of our age, and for the various recipes for saving, mankind, which zealous philosophers and politicians thrust into circulation. They know that nothing can save mankind, for mankind is reaching the end of its present cycle. The wave that carried it, for so mane millenniums, is about to break, with all the fury of acquired speed, and to merge once more into the depth of the unchanging Ocean of undifferentiated existence. It will rise; again, some day, with abrupt majesty, for such is the law of waves. But in the meantime nothing can be done to stop it. - Savitri Devi


While hormone resistance can likely be acquired in multiple ways, it appears we may have uncovered a general contributor to hormone resistance in prostate cancer. - Michael Rosenfeld


When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace. - Ludwig Von Mises


When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever. - Robert Toombs


When this land was acquired by the city over 100 years ago, it was acquired as a water source... It was an excellent water supply until they told us our water wasn't safe. - John Barrett


When they are through with the program they go back to Mexico, and they will take the skills they have acquired, they will take the money they have saved and it will give them the ability to help build the Mexican economy. - Phil Gramm


When the museum took over, they did what museums do, which is acquire art. They acquired things they thought would be consistent with the revival period the building represents. A lot of the statuary was supposedly part of the collection that populated the Cloisters. - Thora Jacobson


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