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Acquisition Quotes & Sayings

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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. - Seneca [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]


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. - John Cage


Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it. - Viscount of Blackburn


Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. - Hesiod


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. - Jane Austen


The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces. - Henry Havelock Ellis


An engineer builds a bridge or whatever it is that lasts 20 or 50 years, but if somebody discovers something in science, well, that's a permanent acquisition of the human race. - John Archibald Wheeler


Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. - Hitopadehsa

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