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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Power Government Influence Will

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Influence Complex Against Must

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men End Wealth Changes

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Bertrand Russell

Power Pleasure More Next

I suppose that was my first bit of acting, the acquisition of an English accent. It was really just an attempt to be understood.

Kenneth Branagh

English Acting Just First

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Alone Knowledge Understanding Said

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Life Beauty Girl Look

Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.

New Always Assimilation Every

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Education Learning Live Facts

Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.

Orison Swett Marden

Life Beauty Day Light

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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.

Orison Swett Marden

Life Man Character Genius

Bayer's planned acquisition of Monsanto promises to increase concentration in both the seed and agrochemical markets.

Promises Seed Concentration Planned

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Charles Caleb Colton

Best Good Friends Good Friends Next

Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Fish Planning Little Least

I never look at an acquisition really by size.

Look Never Size Really

The acquisition of Symphony Teleca... gives us immediate scale in software services. With the addition of cloud, mobility, and analytics competencies, we will accelerate solutions for the connected car and for a broader set of industries and markets.

Car Will Cloud Us

Any successful company in the valley gets acquisition offers and has to decide whether or not to take them.

Marc Andreessen

Company Decide Successful Valley

I've successfully convinced others to let me redevelop the historic Old Post Office Pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. I also led the acquisition of the iconic 800-acre Doral Resort & Spa from my hospital bed after giving birth to my daughter, Arabella.

Me Daughter Hospital Giving

Rural technology is moving from kind of the back office to where everything, every company - sales, marketing, customer acquisition, new product development, media - all industries are becoming technology industries. And it's not information technology: it's business technology.

Technology Business Media New

Do you have the same vision of where industry is going as the target of your acquisition? If visions differ, you might get together economically for a while, but then you are going to have problems.

John T. Chambers

You Together Vision Problems

Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.

Chiang Kai-shek

War Food Time Government

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne

Knowledge Desire Like Riches

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

Value Think Being Going

Market type determines the startup's customer feedback and acquisition activities and spending. It changes customer needs, adoption rates, product features, and positioning as well as its launch strategies, channels and activities.

Customer Feedback Product Launch

Auctomatic was a compressed start-up experience, going from start to launch to acquisition in under a year. We spent a long time building the product before getting our first customer, whereas with Stripe we made sure we had paying customers from the very start.

Time Experience Long Long Time

The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum.

Knowledge People Government Election

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