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As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger.

Hillary Clinton
acquisition independent president

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life.

J. K. Rowling
acquisition knowing lying
Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. by J. K. Rowling

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

J. K. Rowling
acquisition achievement lists

Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.

James M. Barrie
acquisition relief science

Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.

James Surowiecki
mergers acquisition names

Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.

Jamie Dimon
acquisition scratches issues

Science is often misrepresented as "the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory." Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.

Jared Diamond
acquisition body world
Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of... by Jean Berko Gleason

Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.

Jean Berko Gleason
acquisition evolution language

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

Jean Piaget
assimilation accommodations acquisition

An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.

Jeremy Taylor
acquisition arrows unjust

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
acquisition acquaintance one-thing

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

John Cage
acquisition listening mean

Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.

John Carroll
acquisition excellence goal

The acquisition however perfectly of skills is not an end in itself. They are things to be put to use as a contribution to a common and shared life.

John Dewey
acquisition skills use

If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire for wealth arises within you, wealth will not arise around you. Having definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition.

John Frederick Demartini
acquisition essentials desire

Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.

John James Ingalls
acquisition environment happiness

In life, worthwhile accomplishments and acquisitions take time. Usually the better the reward, the more time it takes to acquire it.

John Wooden
acquisition rewards accomplishment
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and vola... by Jose Ortega y Gasset

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
precarious acquisition men

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.

Joseph Conrad
acquisition pain art

The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

Joseph Conrad
acquisition appeals artist
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