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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale
Experience
Hide
Tries
Determines
He
Developing
Longer
Himself
Greatest
Get
Anybody
Acquainted
Really
Moments
Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
Edith Stein
Life
People
Maturity
Before
Herself
Say
Possessed
Able
Only
Individual
Tends
Individual Person
Develop
She
Course
Without
Becomes
Person
Personal
Being
Achieves
Acquainted
Certain
Who
Uniqueness
Her
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard
Pessimist
Has-Been
Been
Optimist
Person
Acquainted
Who
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude Stein
Family
You
Extraordinary
About
Forget
Them
Acquainted
Whole
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
Richard Cecil
God
Great
History
Bible
Will
Characters
All Things
His
Up
The History Of
Acquainted
Sentence
Themselves
Things
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
Vernon Howard
Feelings
Become
Assume
Our
Must
See
Emotional
Hypnotic
Household
Hold
Breaks
Acquainted
Us
Actually
Damaging
It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician - but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is - so that I have an advantage there.
Alexander Graham Bell
Myself
Me
Better
First
Believe
Complete
Our
Shall
He
Advantage
Between
Over
Practical
Sound
Am
Than
Being
Race
Acquainted
Apparatus
Electrician
Reason
Who
Gray
Phenomena
To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell
You
Must
Name
Particular
Understand
Which
Acquainted
Seeing people ahead of time and getting acquainted with the space you're playing in is important to getting comfortable in that place.
Brian Bell
Time
You
People
Space
Important
Seeing
Comfortable
Getting
Place
Acquainted
Playing
No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
Charles Eastman
Home
People
Indian
No-One
Polite
His
Deny
Acquainted
Who
I have very strong relationships with my actors when I'm shooting. When you love an actor's work, you always feel you have to go further, and you make several films together. One film just gives you time to get acquainted.
Claire Denis
Work
Love
Time
You
Together
Strong
Films
Relationships
Several
Further
Gives
Feel
Make
Always
Go
Very
Get
Shooting
Just
Acquainted
Film
Actor
Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
Dave Eggers
You
People
Lost
Young
Guess
Worse
Though
Having
Mortality
Feel
Were
Than
Anybody
Procrastinate
Acquainted
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet
Government
People
Law
Black
Black And White
Example
White
Monstrous
Must
Ability
Somehow
Determined
Given
Only
Both
Absurd
For Example
Knows
Than
Fewer
Anyone
Acquainted
Preferences
Certain
Assessment
On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington
Life
Bible
People
Word
Mine
About
More
Had
Learned
Understand
Becoming
Been
Began
Taught
Acquainted
Much
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
E. B. White
Man
Club
Other
Easier
Members
He
His
Than
Acquainted
Personally
Planet
Loyal
Wandering the book fair at AWP is a great way to get acquainted with a wide sampling of the diverse journals that are out there and the wide sampling of people who produce them.
Eileen Pollack
Great
Book
People
Way
Out
Diverse
Journals
Fair
Great Way
Get
Wandering
Sampling
Them
Acquainted
Produce
Who
Wide
The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.
Eliza Farnham
Truth
Mind
Become
Aim
Ultimate
Efforts
Human
Acquainted
Human Mind
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.
James Fenton
Today
History
Become
Before
Nursery
Carries
Poetry
Through
Part
Read
Because
Within
Still
Hear
Oral
Rhymes
Which
Acquainted
Transmission
Origin
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
James Weldon Johnson
Music
Best
Class
People
Church
Through
Colored
Absolutely
Attendance
Became
Irregular
Acquainted
Teaching
A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.
Jason Wu
Fashion
Culture
Experience
School
Language
First
Illustration
Machine
Sewing
Vancouver
Had
Learned
Became
Lot
Western
Western Culture
Very
Trained
Happened
Which
Acquainted
English
Second
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
John James Audubon
Nature
Becoming
Up
Fervently
Grew
Acquainted
Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.
John Pople
Looking
Those
Laureate
Through
Nobel
Became
Passed
Cambridge
Years
List
Note
Acquainted
Large
Large Number
Whom
Earlier
Number
I was privileged because my father was a policeman, and we lived in town. Many people in Malawi are from typical villages. My grandmother insisted I should be in both worlds, and so I needed to be acquainted with village life.
Joyce Banda
Life
People
Father
Worlds
Typical
Insisted
Both
Both Worlds
Town
Policeman
Because
Privileged
Acquainted
Grandmother
Should
Many
Village
Villages
Lived
Needed
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.
Leo Ornstein
Today
Music
Language
Value
Recording
Enough
Intrinsic
He
Piece
Until
Make
Aesthetic
Hear
Begin
Times
Gets
Estimate
Acquainted
Then
Really
Thing
When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Alone
Travel
He
Himself
Goes
Gets
Acquainted
Traveler
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron
Good
Immaterial
Delightful
Am
Sensuality
Acquainted
Good Acting
Acting
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