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• The acquisition of True Temper broadens our lawn and garden product line with outstanding, highly respected brands, ... The purchase also expands USI Hardware and Tool's customer base and provides additional capacity for future growth.

  David A. Clarke, Jr

  Garden, Growth, Lines

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• There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.

  James K. Polk

  Independent, Oregon, California

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• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Ambition, Hard Work

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

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• The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Independent, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Precarious

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• Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Growth, Return

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• To globalize for the sake of globalizing-as a matter of ego-is perilous. Expanding internationally is hard, risky work. Globalization is not just about putting up a plant. It's not about making an acquisition. It's much, much more.

  Kumar Mangalam Birla

  Ego, Matter, Sake

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• There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Space, Giving, Goal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.15, Macmillan

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• The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations. This imperative rightfully takes precedence over acquisition, interpretation, outreach, or any number of other activities now believed to be crucial to the survival of our great art repositories. Sometimes a museum gains its holdings with much strategic forethought, and at other times serendipitously, as when a long-coveted neighbor’s plot suddenly becomes available. Yet the moral responsibility remains the same.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Responsibility, Numbers

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• Your will is the ego part of you that believes you're separate from others, separate from what you'd like to accomplish or have, and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions, achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire evidence of your importance... On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within you. ...with imagination, we have the power to be anything we desire to be.

  Wayne Dyer

  Believe, Hands, Imagination

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• Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and goodness, not unlimited acquisition.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Wisdom, Law, Forgiving

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• The important outcomes of schooling include not only the acquisition of new conceptual tools, refined sensibilities, a developed imagination, and new routines and techniques, but also new attitudes and dispositions. The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Education, Attitude, School

  Elliot W. Eisner (2002). “The Arts and the Creation of Mind”, p.240, Yale University Press

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• [The scientist] believes passionately in facts, in measured facts. He believes there are no bad facts, that all facts are good facts, though they may be facts about bad things, and his intellectual satisfaction can come only from the acquisition of accurately known facts, from their organization into a body of knowledge, in which the inter-relationship of the measured facts is the dominant consideration.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Believe, Knowledge, Science

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• Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.

  Robert Greene

  Art, Power, Keys

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.21, Profile Books

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• Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

  Midge Decter

  Powerful, Fate, Men

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• Education was not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It was an initiation into the life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Life, Education, Truth

  "The Evolution of India".

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• The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

  Michael Gove

  Keys, Mobility, Social

  "Michael Gove reveals the surprising inspirations behind his reforms" by Peter Walker, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which to-day determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt.

  Max Weber

  Cells, Order, Everyday

  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism ch. 5 (1920) (translation by Talcott Parsons)

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• Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success

  John Ortberg

  Self, Challenges, Inspire

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• I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the U. S. We should act in concert with our allies who are similarly working to protect their countries.

  Sandy Adams

  Country, Believe, Mean

  "Sandy Adams, candidate for U.S. House district 24". Interview, dampfang.com. August 18, 2010.

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• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  Seneca the Younger

  Riches, Faults, Misery

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• A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

  Maria Mitchell

  Travel, Stars, Desert

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• The Atonement of Jesus Christ outweighs, surpasses, and transcends every other mortal event, every new discovery, and every acquisition of knowledge, for without the Atonement all else in life is meaningless.

  Tad R. Callister

  Jesus, Discovery, Events

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• Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

  Chuck Thompson

  Vocabulary, Keys, Games

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• The foundation of economic development is the acquisition of more productive knowledge.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Foundation, Development, Economic

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century

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