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Quotes About Acquired

I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.
~ Justine Musk
but he had seldom been used with patience or forbearance. He prided himself on his self-control. It had been whipped into him by the mockery of his fellows. Then they called him cynical and callous. He had acquired calmness of demeanour and under most circumstances an unruffled exterior, so that now he could not show his feelings.
~ Lewis Carroll
The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".
~ Ian Gardner
Obstacles (antray) are indeed due to desires. As desires keep on decreasing, so do the obstructions (antray) keep on getting destroyed. Then, everything is acquired (at that stage).
~ Dada Bhagwan
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen
~ Albert Einstein
Within minutes of being offered congratulations and best wishes, she acquired a Crowgard pen pal and was told by the coffee shop's manager that a ride was waiting for her in the access way.
~ Anne Bishop
I remember no syllable of them now, but the other, more ancient lore which I acquired that term will be with me in one shape or another to my last hour. "I like this bad set and I like getting drunk at luncheon"; that was enough then. Is more needed now?
~ Evelyn Waugh
The precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights - cultural, civil, social, economic, and political.
~ Guy Standing
I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
~ Saint Patrick
There isn't much question that the person who obtained the WikiLeaks cables from a classified U.S. government network broke U.S. law and should expect to face the consequences. The legal rights of a website that publishes material acquired from that person, however, are much more controversial.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
the chief priest was a kind of 'pope' who very quickly acquired the prerogatives of the rex. Thus in 12 BC Augustus assumed its title and attributes.
~ Robert Turcan
Once Hamilton was initiated into the cause of American liberty, his life acquired an even more headlong pace that never slackened.
~ Ron Chernow
Sorry I disagree,' she said while initialing some papers, having already acquired the mogul's knack of compounding an insult by multitasking while delivering it.
~ Joe Keenan
Some of his newly acquired knowledge brought pain, as knowledge is apt to do.
~ Edna Ferber
When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.
~ Albert Houtum-Schindler
A person who has intelligence understands that the knowledge can only be acquired, not common sense as that is already inherently employed and invisibly wired with everyone's mind, heart and soul.
~ Anuj Somany
It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.
~ Arthur Compton
When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
she said with a smile. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You smoke? (Randy) Only when I'm on fire. (Steele) I don't appreciate your humor, Mr. Steele. (Randy) I'm an acquired taste. (Steele)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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.
~ Avicenna
The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.
~ Elihu Root
T]he Meyricks, whose various knowledge had been acquired by the irregular foraging to which clever girls have usually been reduced...
~ George Eliot