"The desires of man increase with his acquisitions."
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"The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition."
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"Don't you know what marriage means in this world? They are mergers and acquisitions disguised as marriages. In other words, the takeover syndromes."
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"Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing."
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"Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]"
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"The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity."
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"But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest."
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"Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge."
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"But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more."
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"Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement."
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"I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing."
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"In the acquisition of a new habit, or the leaving off of an old one, we must take care to launch ourselves with as strong and decided an initiative as possible."
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"What is generally regarded as success - acquisition of wealth, the capture of power or social prestige - I consider the most dismal failures. I hold when it is said of a man that he has arrived, it means that he is finished - his development has stopped at that point."
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"Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life."
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"I was vehemently against acquisitions. Now let's buy everything in sight. Well, that's a slight exaggeration. We are a little more strategic than that. But everything was on sale."
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"The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition."
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"What is the nature of the genetic endowment? How does acquisition proceed? Etc. Scientists do routinely ask similar questions about the visual system, system of motor organisation, and others - including, in fact, the digestive system."
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"The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring."
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"Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones"
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"No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions."
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