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• Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable by us under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.

  Warren Buffett

  Decision, Investing, Earning

  Richard J. Connors, Warren Buffett (2010). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.193, John Wiley & Sons

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• The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Acquaintance, One Thing

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• The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Desire, Increase

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.55

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• Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Satisfaction, Gains, Doe

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• The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Goal, Missing

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• Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

  Aristotle

  Wisdom, Good Life, Politics

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• Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

  Aristotle

  Block, Agriculture, Land

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• As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.

  Thomas Paine

  Real, Ignorance, People

  Thomas Paine (1859). “The Theological Works”, p.344

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• Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.

  John Carroll

  Goal, Excellence, Ethical

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.120, Taylor & Francis

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• As with the acquisition, so with the use of money; they way in which a man spends it is often one of the surest tests of character.

  William Mathews

  Money, Character, Men

  William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.284, Belford Bros.

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• Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.

  Don DeLillo

  Sex, Media, People

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.769, Pan Macmillan

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• Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  People, Marketing, Technique

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.35, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

  Thomas Paine

  Home, Government, People

  Thomas Paine (1835). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life”, p.430

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• Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.

  William George Jordan

  Education, Training, Mind

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Leader, Peers

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

  Jean Berko Gleason

  Evolution, Language, Literacy

  "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 3, 2011.

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• Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just goes to show that librarians were destined to rule the Web.

  Peter Morville

  Book, Pennsylvania, Amazon

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• Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians have trouble executing a passage, they generally tend to blame themselves for not having enough talent. Actually, all that's wrong is they don't know where their fingers are supposed to go...you should learn the piece in your head before you play it. And when you do play it, play it so slow that there's no possibility of making a mistake.

  Howard Roberts

  Mistake, Play, Skills

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• If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.

  Robert Wright

  Change, Strong, War

  Robert Wright (2001). “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny”, p.314, Vintage

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• The better educated we are and the more acquired information we have, the better prepared shall we find our minds for making great and fruitful discoveries.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Discovery, Mind

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

  John Dewey

  Skills, Use, Common

  "The Later Works, 1925-1953".

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• As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Sacrifice, Car, Long

  Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain

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• 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.

  Tim Minchin

  Understanding, Body, Belief

  Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at The University of Western in Perth, Western Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.

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• The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

  Epicurus

  Men, Riches, Trouble

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• The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Pain, Delight

  The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

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