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To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name. Bertrand Russell Acquainted 83
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 Acquainted 81
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school. Eli Whitney Acquainted 77
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 Acquainted 71
Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. Donald Cram Acquainted 69
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 Acquainted 65
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 Acquainted 61
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. Samuel Johnson Acquainted 56
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. John Wooden Acquainted 36
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature. John James Audubon Acquainted 36
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. Virgil Acquainted 24
Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted. William Hamilton Maxwell Acquainted 20

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