Money is the seed of money and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
False riches consisting of money houses and lands acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Capital is money capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring or at the least lays golden eggs.
The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired it need not be deserved.
It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning that creates the culture that acquires the culture and that responds to socialization.
There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
What guides Marxism then is a different model of society and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent detect diagnose and treat disease and disability from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
In garden arrangement as in all other kinds of decorative work one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
If we look at the realm of knowledge how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
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.
As governor I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
TRUE some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
I write plays and movies I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.