Quotes About Acquisition

Our library isn't very extensive, said Anne, but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph.

An English speaker who has never studied French already knows around 15,000 French words!

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The

But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it!—by the same process and electrical assimilation, as I told you, through which I ween the souls of connoisseurs themselves, by long friction and incumbition, have the happiness, at length, to get all be-virtu'd—be-pictured,—be-butterflied, and be-fiddled.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

So where does the human error come in? Well, sometimes I buy a stamp and mount it in my album without troubling to log it in my catalog. And later I find it offered on somebody else's list, and see that it's one I don't have, and buy it again. And then when I go to mount the new copy in my album, there's one already there.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind's incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

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

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires greater stock of religious merit than he would gain by the repetition of 10,000 prayers. Zen Zoroaster

El anhelo reemplaza al deseo como fuerza motivadora del consumo.

Si el deseo ansía consumir, el amor ansía poseer. En cuanto la satisfacción del deseo es colindante con la aniquilación de su objeto, el amor crece con sus adquisiciones y se satisface con su durabilidad. Si el deseo es

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

El precio real de todas las cosas, lo que cada cosa cuesta realmente a la persona que desea adquirirla, es el esfuezo y la fatiga que su adquisición supone.

The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.

The quickest way to stop noticing something, may be to buy it—just as the quickest way to stop appreciating someone may be to marry him or her.

Objects mimic in a material dimension what we require in a psychological one. We need to rearrange our minds but are lured towards new shelves. We buy a cashmere cardigan as a substitute for the counsel of friends. We

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programmers believe that their own imperatives of construction simplicity and ease of acquisition—of prewritten source code in their case—take precedence over any suggestions made by others.

A belief in the validity of the acquisition of knowledge and a scientific understanding of the world we live in, the creation and appreciation of aesthetic phenomena in all their many forms, and the broadening and deepening of our range of experiences in day-to-day living, is rapidly becoming the 'religion' of our time.

One can argue, why not simply give the solution; why go through the trouble of creating a puzzle? Ancient Hindus believed, wisdom must never be given. It has to be taken. And

Poštovanje se mu?no sti?e. Tako mislim. Ono se ne nasle?uje, kao imanje. Ne može ni da se kupi. Kao ?in i zadovoljstvo. Nikakvom silom ne može da se postigne. Ne možeš ni da ga izmoliš. Najgore je s poštovanjem, moj gospodine vodni?e, što se ono najteže sa?uva. Otmu ti ga ljudi, pojede ti ga vreme. Malo je ljudi koji poštovanje odnesu u grob.

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