“She acquires momentum as she advances.”
Virgil
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
“In the acquire-or-be-acquired corporate mayhem of the 1980s, the mantle of management has passed to investment bankers and number-crunchers whose vision extends no further than the next quarterly earnings statement.”
Charles Fontaine
“They acquire a kind of a momentum and we have to blunt that. I would like to see the president talk much more about those kinds of stakes because this is a way to explain what we're contending with, what we're fighting.”
Dennis Ross
“It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them”
Mark Twain