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You are doing an excellent thing, one which will be wholesome for you, if, as you write me, you are persisting in your effort to attain sound understanding; it is foolish to pray for this when you can acquire it from yourself. We do not need to uplift our hands towards heaven, or to beg the keeper of a temple to let us approach his idol's ear, as if in this way our prayers were more likely to be heard. A god is near you, with you, and in you. This is what I mean, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, one who marks our good and bad deeds, and is our a guardian.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
2 months ago

The good news is that you still wield a ton of influence at this age, you can help our child acquire key skills and cope with the inevitable awkwardness, self-consciousness and insecurity that every middle schooler is going to experience.

Phyllis Fagell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The relative velocity between spacecraft and moon will be 14.7 miles per second (23.6 kilometers per second), so we are screaming by pretty fast, all steps have to go like clockwork to successfully acquire our planned data, because soon after the flyby is complete, the spacecraft needs to be reoriented for our upcoming close approach of Jupiter, which happens only 7 ½ hours later.

John Bordi

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We've made it absolutely clear: We will not — let me say it again — we will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When Washington changes the rules only to acquire power or only to maintain power, it undermines public trust in the institutions that bind Americans together, we don’t need a further undermining of these institutions.

Hank Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

At the moment, we are not concerned about a global pandemic, we are concerned that individuals may acquire this infection through high-risk exposure if they don’t have the information they need to protect themselves.

Rosamund Lewis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Those requests come to us, if a chair from the 1800s is located at an auction, for example, we would acquire it and bring it back. These are things Mrs. Kennedy wisely put in place as part of the association's charter, things that might be uncomfortable to go to Congress for funding but are still needed. That's where we come in.

Stewart McLaurin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter is the latest development in a weeks-long saga that is simply a distraction from the many challenges facing Tesla itself, elon Musk should focus on Tesla and not waste time attempting to acquire and manage [ Twitter ].

David Trainer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Everyone will still blame me for everything, if I acquire Twitter and something goes wrong, it's my fault 100 %. I think there will be quite a few errors.

Elon Musk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is no daylight between us on the fundamental proposition that Iran must never be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon, whether there is a return to the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear agreement, or not, that principle will not change nor will our commitment to it.

Antony Blinken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the request of President Zelensky, we have identified and are helping Ukraine acquire additional longer-range anti-aircraft systems and the munitions for those systems.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We'll just evaluate what's available to us, i don't think it's any secret where we are in the standings, and so if there's an opportunity to acquire some future talent and augment what we've got in our prospect pool or our draft asset pool, then we'll explore that.

Kyle Davidson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today the dangers that [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy's regime pose for neighboring countries and international security in general have increased substantially after the authorities set up in Kyiv have embarked upon dangerous games related to plans to acquire their own nuclear weapons.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Water isn't free, somebody has to go and acquire the water, treat it, distribute it to our homes and then treat the wastewater after it leaves our homes. We need to think about water as a precious commodity.

David Feldman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While we can understand why some who are not responsible for the financial sustainability of Postal Service might prefer that we acquire more electric vehicles, the law requires us to be self-sufficient.

Postal Service spokesperson Kim Frum

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That's not a future that we aspire to, but it's one that we're ready -- a path that we are ready to go down if that's the decision that Iran makes, and we will use the tools that we have to ensure that our interests are preserved and that Iran can acquire a nuclear weapon.

The United

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Everyday we make a choice, when we decide to become best version of ourselves we acquire power, strength, attitude and will to live best life.

Purvi Raniga

added by Purviraniga
2 years ago

The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other?’ ‘Choose a friend.’ I said.

Chaim Potok

added by Soulwriter
2 years ago

Tell someone she can fly and she'll spend her entire life creating ways to acquire wings.

Wesley D'Amico

added by WesleyD'Amico
2 years ago

China is keen to exploit cleavages in our defenses to acquire information it considers sensitive and treating this issue as a pure law enforcement matter only plays to China's strategy, because doing so does not account for China's passive collection of information in support of its military aims.

Craig Singleton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Two years ago, we were in this super high investment phase where we were creating a lot of consumer and merchant traction on the platform, we have found that it is easier — much easier — than two years ago to acquire and retain customers, hence, we are spending a lot less.

Madhur Deora

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

added by Normando
2 years ago

The philosopher Socrates once asked why all men praise liberty but so many neglect to acquire self-discipline. Without the virtue of temperance, he reasoned, none of us can truly become wise or free, as we’re bound to be misled and enslaved by our own passions. It was the Stoic school of philosophy, though, founded a century after Socrates’ death, which turned this simple insight into a whole way of life. Socrates taught that in order to attain wisdom, we must free ourselves from violent passions, such as greed and anger. Today, although we cherish our freedoms more than ever, we’ve largely forgotten that they’re meaningless without the strength of character to make use of them well. For Stoics, the uncomplaining endurance required in Greek military training provided an obvious means of learning discipline. Perhaps for that reason, many of the greatest philosophers of antiquity were soldiers.

Mick Mulroy

added by AnaDay
2 years ago

We really haven't revisited the underlying assumptions since the'70s, which is a little bit horrifying given how different the way we eat, the price of foods, how families acquire and prepare foods, all of those things have changed so dramatically. So this is way overdue.

Elaine Waxman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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