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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Work
Hard Work
Great
Knowledge
Perseverance
Aim
Followed
Having
Achieved
Anything
Acquiring
Then
Hard
Things
Four
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Technology
Humanity
Wrong
Wrong Reasons
Acquiring
Reasons
Right
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Denis Diderot
Nature
Knowledge
Result
Reflection
Three
Facts
Observation
Combination
Principal
Experimentation
Them
Acquiring
Means
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
James Madison
Government
Both
Perhaps
Without
Tragedy
Information
Acquiring
Means
Farce
Popular
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.
Benjamin Franklin
Man
Respect
People
Political
Every
Other
Our
Thoroughly
Circumstances
Easy
More
Perhaps
Reads
His
Than
Improvement
Any
Heaven
Leisure
Information
Conversations
Acquiring
Us
Interests
Among
Enlightened
Every Man
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus
Death
Daily
Before
Living
Thinking
Habit
Lead
Towards
Get
Irreparable
Which
Race
Acquiring
Us
Body
Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.
Eric Hoffer
Good
Wise
Few
Living
Consists
Possible
Habits
Perhaps
Than
Acquiring
Less
Good Habits
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Habit
Prevents
Excess
Occasion
Exhilarating
Effect
Moderation
Acquiring
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume
Alone
Society
Our
Possessions
Insatiable
Ourselves
Destructive
Directly
Goods
Perpetual
Friends
Acquiring
Nearest
Universal
I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Property
Valuable
Wish
Encouragement
Own
Citizens
See
My Own
True
Becoming
Am
Intelligent
Done
Race
Them
Acquiring
Useful
Assist
Enlightened
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
Alan Perlis
Education
Thoughts
Learning
Discipline
Critical
Detail
Self
Students
Attention
Self-Critical
Making
Goes
Modern
Modern Education
Grain
Against
Acquiring
Teach
Plans
Organizing
Fun
Program
I was very adept at acquiring languages.
Anna Held
Adept
Very
Acquiring
Languages
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man
Become
Possessing
One Thing
Could
How
His
Question
Die
Any
Being
The One Thing
Acquiring
Fullness
Thing
Last
It is imperative that the United States lead in preventing Iran from ever acquiring a nuclear weapon. That requires vigorously enforcing the Iran deal while leaving all options on the table, including military force if necessary.
Brad Schneider
Military
States
Weapon
Table
Preventing
Imperative
Lead
Force
Deal
Leaving
Iran
Options
While
Acquiring
Enforcing
Requires
Military Force
Including
United
Ever
United States
Nuclear
Necessary
Nuclear Weapon
The problem isn't getting your hands on a press pass - it's acquiring one of those wide-brimmed fedora hats in which to keep your press pass.
Dave Itzkoff
Problem
Press
Those
Hats
Pass
Hands
Hands-On
Getting
Which
Acquiring
Your
Keep
Acquiring market leaders in the U.S. and around the world continues to be a core part of our growth strategy as we strengthen our global platform, one step at a time.
Dylan Taylor
Time
World
Strategy
Market
Our
Part
Step
Leaders
Global
Around
Acquiring
Platform
Growth
Strengthen
Core
At Pixar, we believe strongly that filmmakers should develop ideas they are passionate about. This may sound like a no-brainer, but in fact in Hollywood, the big movie studios have whole departments devoted to acquiring and developing projects that will only later be paired with a director-for-hire.
Edwin Catmull
Will
Big
Believe
Later
Projects
About
Strongly
Only
Fact
No-Brainer
Develop
Studios
Developing
Like
Ideas
Devoted
Sound
Passionate
Big Movie
Departments
May
In Fact
Movie
Pixar
Hollywood
Acquiring
Should
Whole
Filmmakers
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
Emil Cioran
Despair
Habit
Exist
Acquiring
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
Gordon W. Allport
Best
Knowledge
First
Looking
Own
Others
Our
Ourselves
Outlines
Supplies
Within
Becoming
Hints
Discovered
Orderly
Psychology
Acquiring
Uniqueness
Needed
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Henry Mayhew
Women
Humiliation
Lost
Few
Sense
Those
Degraded
About
Properly
Park
Shame
Parks
Most
Sake
Any
Paths
Wander
So-Called
After
Acquiring
Who
Creatures
Species
Utterly
Consent
Targeted marketing delivers a lower customer acquisition cost and gets you to profitable growth faster. The goal is to quickly identify the costs associated with acquiring your most profitable segment of customers and the incremental value - if any - of going beyond your core.
Jay Samit
You
Value
Faster
Incremental
Marketing
Cost
Costs
Segment
Beyond
Most
Identify
Goal
Targeted
Quickly
Gets
Any
Going
Customer
Customers
Acquiring
Acquisition
Lower
Your
Growth
Profitable
Associated
Core
The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.
Jeffrey Kluger
Learning
Behavior
Language
Mind
Beginning
Structure
Only
Particular
Look
How
Scientists
Brain
Itself
Very
Closely
Influences
Acquiring
Thing
Second
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
John Dalton
You
Writing
Discipline
Valuable
Several
Spent
More
Write
Day-To-Day
Highly
Studying
Obsessive
Iowa
Years
Want
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Acquiring
Then
Professionally
Needed
University
Once you identify positional needs, then I think, then, what you do is, you be very selective on how you go about acquiring those players. You have to look at the resources available on how to acquire those players, and then, if you can, go acquire those assets that can best help this team get over the hump.
John Dorsey
Best
Needs
You
Think
Hump
Resources
Once
Those
About
Selective
Over
Look
Identify
How
Go
Very
Get
Available
Acquire
Acquiring
Then
Team
Help
Assets
Players
Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.
John Lescroart
Important
Single
Aggressive
Relationships
Writer
New
Most
Make
Houses
Opinion
York
Move
New York
In My Opinion
Acquiring
Agent
Communicative
Successful
Who
Actual
Publishing
Honest
President Obama has made it clear that the United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
John O. Brennan
Made
President
President Obama
States
Obama
Weapons
Determined
Prevent
Clear
Iran
Acquiring
United
United States
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
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