A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
Eleanor Robson Belmont

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
Frank Chodorov

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.
Jared Diamond

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
Henry Bessemer

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Gustave Courbet

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
Lord Harlech

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Congress would exclude slavery from any territory that in the future might be acquired from Mexico.
David Wilmot

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
Delphine de Girardin

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
Philip Warren Anderson

I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour.
Henri Rousseau

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
Isaac Hanson

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.
Joseph Rotblat

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.
Tori Amos