Acquisition Quotes

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.