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• [G]overnment can, instead of extending freedom, restrict freedom. And note ... that the 'can' quickly becomes 'will' the moment the holders of government power are left to their own devices. This is because of the corrupting influence of power, the natural tendency of men who possess some power to take unto themselves more power. The tendency leads eventually to the acquisition of all power - whether in the hands of one or many makes little difference to the freedom of those left on the outside.

  Barry Goldwater

  Men, Hands, Differences

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• We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

  Richard I of England

  God Love, Honour, Regions

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• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  War, Greed, Desire

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• We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.

  Arthur Lynch

  Education, Mean, Hands

  Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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• When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

  John Flavel (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.127, Lulu.com

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• In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Couple, Order

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• Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Done, Strategy

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• For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global network. The second best one was the acquisition of PayPal - the wallet on eBay.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, Ebay, Ideas

  Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. January 24, 2008.

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• It is a great presumption to ascribe our successes to our own management, and not to esteem ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it is the bounty of heaven, than the acquisition of our own prudence.

  Joseph Addison

  Success, Blessing, Heaven

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.283

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• I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Thinking, Might, Lifetime

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• If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.

  Michael Faraday

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

  Marshall McLuhan

  Science, Past, Problem

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• Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Money, Character, Men

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Lectures".

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• We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying the price at which they are offered to us. Every man wishes to be rich, but very few have the powers necessary to raise a sudden fortune, either by new discoveries, or by superiority of skill in any necessary employment; and among lower understandings many want the firmness and industry requisite to regular gain and gradual acquisitions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Skills, Discovery

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.243

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• In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Motivation, Knowledge, Science

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• Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

  James Surowiecki

  Names, Mergers, Name Changes

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• At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

  Eric Ries

  Twenties, Dollars, Campaigns

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• The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Would Be, Nuclear, Weapons

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• The science of the modern school ... is in effect ... the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.

  George Herbert

  School, Science, Elements

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• However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it!

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Reflection, Men

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• All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race has long been placed, and hence through the influence of the predominant use or permanent disuse of any organ; all these are preserved by reproduction to the new individuals which arise, provided that the acquired modifications are common to both sexes, or at least to the individuals which produce the young.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Sex, Loss, Science

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• Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting.

  Robert Bunsen

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Sake

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• The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain everything: so that the desire being always greater than the acquisition, there results discontent with the possession and little satisfaction to themselves from it. From this arises the changes in their fortunes; for as men desire, some to have more, some in fear of losing their acquisition, there ensues enmity and war, from which results the ruin of that province and the elevation of another.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Men

  "Discourses on Livy". Book by Niccolo Machiavelli, Book 1, Ch. 37, (as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, War, Two

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• Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.

  Willis R. Whitney

  Success, Mother, Knowledge

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