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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John Wooden

Free, Adversity, State

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

Person, Pessimist, Optimist

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale

Experience, Greatest, Himself

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell

Understand, Name, Particular

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

Adversity, State, Himself

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron

Good, Acting, Delightful

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Virgil

Help, Learn, Misfortune

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.
Ovid

Men, Long, Friend

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
E. B. White

Planet, Loyal, Club

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Gertrude Stein

Family, Forget, Whole

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock

Life, After, Making

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
Lord Chesterfield

Travel, Self, Through

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade

Bad, Become, Anyone

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
David Hume

History, Respect, Knowledge

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Novalis

Truth, Become, Against

Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
Erykah Badu

Great, Enough, America

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

Emotional, Feelings, Become

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet

Government, Black, Law

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.
Duke Ellington

Life, Understand, Learned

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Alone, Himself, Goes

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.
Dave Eggers

Lost, Young, Though

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.
Akshay Kumar

Family, Today, Made

As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
John James Audubon

Nature, Becoming, Desirous

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.
James Weldon Johnson

Music, Best, Through

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
Charles Eastman

Home, Deny, Polite

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
Marcus V. Pollio

Science, Words, Difficult

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.
Leo Ornstein

Music, Today, Enough

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.
Maria Monk

Great, Power, Thoughts

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
Mark Shields

Effort, Himself, Interested

Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
William Henry Ashley

Short, Ocean, Connection

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