Quotes about Acquisition

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.

But one clear difference was that he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum. He could not really converse, for instance, not in the sense of sharing information, or of a balanced back-and-forth conversation. He neither particularly listened to what was said to him, nor particularly considered what he said in response (one reason he was so repetitive).

You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”

They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.

Now Judah acquired a wife for Er, his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.

The field and the cave that is in it were purchased from the Hittites.”

Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.