One does not make war except to preserve one's own possessions or to acquire those of others.
We work to become, not to acquire.
Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.
The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.
TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
Any time you get a chance to acquire a really good football player, I'm all about that.
The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.
In itself, the practice of deception is not particularly exacting; it is a matter of experience, of professional expertise, it is a facility most of us can acquire.
If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
