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I was very adept at acquiring languages.
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Spirituality, for me, is acquiring and giving happiness without hurting anyone.
Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
I am not gadgety at all. It's not that I'm appalled by technology, but I've taken my time acquiring any of it.
I'm always interested in, I would say, not only sharing my wisdom, but acquiring other people's wisdom as well.
I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.
WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.
President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
The cost of acquiring new customers and maintaining those relationships in an online environment versus bricks and mortar is significant.
Acquiring Sunseeker deepens Wanda's international influence and represents an important step forward for the development of the business.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.
The problem isn't getting your hands on a press pass - it's acquiring one of those wide-brimmed fedora hats in which to keep your press pass.
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
Before acquiring a project, take the advice of experienced trade pundits in the industry and analyse the risks and business propositions thoroughly.
By acquiring Biovex, we're continuing the transformation of Amgen into a company that supports therapeutic oncology as well as supportive care oncology.
I excelled in finding and acquiring secret information that I obtained in brush passes, dead drops, or in meetings in dusty alleys of third world capitals.
VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup.
I'm in the mode of acquiring knowledge and relationships on the business side and it's paramount that you learn as much as you can and have the best resources.
I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.
Since acquiring major interests in Dole Food Company 28 years ago, educating the public on proper diet has constituted the agenda of the Dole Nutrition Institute.
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 its irreparable lead.
By acquiring all of your furniture from different eras and places and things that are expensive and inexpensive, it will make your end product have a great spirit.
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs.
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
The UTV/Disney fit works because UTV Motion Pictures was already very strong in producing and creating its own films beyond just co-producing, acquiring or distributing titles.
I have power, but focus on the overall athletic event - the technique you have to execute before acquiring the knockout. You have to play the game before you hit a home run, right?
Yes; we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual.
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 is a matter of time.
I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.
A lot was happening in A.I. But I also realized it wasn't clear what Salesforce's role in A.I. was. That's when we started acquiring quite a few artificial intelligence companies, maybe a dozen.
I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.