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The terrible spill now is, of course, a coincidence. But it plays in our minds like life imitating art, which was imitating life, and on and on, because, as DeLillo suggests in ‘White Noise’ as well, we have unfortunately become too acquainted with the mediated language and enactment of disaster. – Jesse Kavadlo	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Adele meet The Rock, The Rock meet Adele! For the first time ever! all right, you two get acquainted, we gotta keep the show moving! – Trevor Noah	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I had various tasks, i had to meet particular people, get acquainted with them. For example, the leader of the Libertarian Party of Russia, Yaroslav Conway, or the head coordinator of the Free Russia Foundation in Georgia, Anton Mikhalchuk. – Mikhail Sokolov	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It would be many years until I did, but that was always my fear, that I would end up alone. Intimacy and I were not very well acquainted until very late in my life. – Rob Lowe	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Sometimes people have very good intentions, but they're not necessarily acquainted with all the research and they're not necessarily acquainted with the legal requirements. – Michaele Turnage Young	Found on CNN 2 years ago
So that’s when I first got acquainted with Elie, and we did an event together in December of 2018 and took the house down with storytelling that is on display here, right now, and that’s when we decided to sort of lean in on that issue. – Demand Justice	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society. – Alexander Hamilton	added by Normando 3 years ago
When you expect your desire to be fulfilled, you often anticipate about it. You anticipate the possible results and outcomes of the situation which will lead to fulfilment of your desire. Although your anticapations merely remain as expectations until it is acquainted with some real facts. And hence, when your anticapations are substantiated with a proper sequel it becomes more viable, which ultimately results in the higher possibility of achieving your desired goal. – Prashant Agarwal	added by prashantagarwal12 4 years ago
It's key that those who develop projects know how to get communities acquainted with projects, that they understand the point of view of indigenous communities, that they can offer advantages that make projects viable. – German Corredor	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
To meet the depths of defeat is to be better acquainted with courage. – Nicki Ley	added by anonymous 7 years ago
You had a really rotten day, but lucky for you your best friend is having an awesome party later. You go to the party and start drinking. You have a little too much to drink and start talking to this girl/guy you’ve never seen before. You head upstairs to better acquainted despite several friends telling you that you don’t even know this person. You end up having sex with this person. The next day you really can’t remember everything that happened and rely on your best friend to fill you in. A week later you find out that you contracted herpes from your one night stand and that this is a disease you will have all your life and never known when an outbreak will occur. – Amy Loper	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I think what we can do . . . is maybe come up with an index for parents to prepare their children for surgery, to get them acquainted with the issues. – Santhanam Suresh	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I plan to visit the Russian Athletics Federation, RUSADA( the country's anti-doping organization which Vitaly Stepanova worked for), as well as getting acquainted with the legal case this is all that I can say at the moment. – Vladimir Kazarin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us. – Vernon Howard	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. – Samuel Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes. – Dugald Stewart	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer. – Alexander Pope	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance. – Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The terrible spill now is, of course, a coincidence. But it plays in our minds like life imitating art, which was imitating life, and on and on, because, as DeLillo suggests in ‘White Noise’ as well, we have unfortunately become too acquainted with the mediated language and enactment of disaster.

– Jesse Kavadlo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Adele meet The Rock, The Rock meet Adele! For the first time ever! all right, you two get acquainted, we gotta keep the show moving!

– Trevor Noah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I had various tasks, i had to meet particular people, get acquainted with them. For example, the leader of the Libertarian Party of Russia, Yaroslav Conway, or the head coordinator of the Free Russia Foundation in Georgia, Anton Mikhalchuk.

– Mikhail Sokolov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would be many years until I did, but that was always my fear, that I would end up alone. Intimacy and I were not very well acquainted until very late in my life.

– Rob Lowe

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Sometimes people have very good intentions, but they're not necessarily acquainted with all the research and they're not necessarily acquainted with the legal requirements.

– Michaele Turnage Young

Found on CNN
2 years ago

So that’s when I first got acquainted with Elie, and we did an event together in December of 2018 and took the house down with storytelling that is on display here, right now, and that’s when we decided to sort of lean in on that issue.

– Demand Justice

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

– Alexander Hamilton

added by Normando
3 years ago

When you expect your desire to be fulfilled, you often anticipate about it. You anticipate the possible results and outcomes of the situation which will lead to fulfilment of your desire. Although your anticapations merely remain as expectations until it is acquainted with some real facts. And hence, when your anticapations are substantiated with a proper sequel it becomes more viable, which ultimately results in the higher possibility of achieving your desired goal.

– Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal12
4 years ago

It's key that those who develop projects know how to get communities acquainted with projects, that they understand the point of view of indigenous communities, that they can offer advantages that make projects viable.

– German Corredor

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

To meet the depths of defeat is to be better acquainted with courage.

– Nicki Ley

added by anonymous
7 years ago

You had a really rotten day, but lucky for you your best friend is having an awesome party later. You go to the party and start drinking. You have a little too much to drink and start talking to this girl/guy you’ve never seen before. You head upstairs to better acquainted despite several friends telling you that you don’t even know this person. You end up having sex with this person. The next day you really can’t remember everything that happened and rely on your best friend to fill you in. A week later you find out that you contracted herpes from your one night stand and that this is a disease you will have all your life and never known when an outbreak will occur.

– Amy Loper

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I think what we can do . . . is maybe come up with an index for parents to prepare their children for surgery, to get them acquainted with the issues.

– Santhanam Suresh

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I plan to visit the Russian Athletics Federation, RUSADA( the country's anti-doping organization which Vitaly Stepanova worked for), as well as getting acquainted with the legal case this is all that I can say at the moment.

– Vladimir Kazarin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

– Vernon Howard

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

– Benjamin Disraeli

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

– Samuel Johnson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes.

– Dugald Stewart

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

– Alexander Pope

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

– Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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