Yungblud

The broken heart on my right finger represents me before I figured out who I was, and the full heart on my left is because I'm left-handed, I use that to write my music, and my music helped me obtain my direction in life.

English Musician

Erik Spoelstra

I really find comfort in watching film and obtaining knowledge and I use statistics and computer generated stuff to help me get those stats. That was probably a result of my father's influence on me at a young age.

American Coach

Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

British Philosopher

Xavier Becerra

Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

American Politician

Gabrielle Giffords

Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.

Leo Tolstoy

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Russian Novelist

Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Tibetan Leader

George Bancroft

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

American Historian

Thomas Paine

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

English Activist

Cornelius Nepos

Roman Author

Using 'obtain' suggests effort went into getting something, more than just receiving it.

Effort Implied

'Obtain' is slightly formal and may not be common in everyday casual conversations.

Slight Formality

'Obtain' often involves an active process like asking or applying, not just finding or seeing.

Active Process

When 'obtain' refers to customs or behaviors, it means they are widely recognized and practiced.

Cultural Context

This use of 'obtain' is less common and more formal, often found in written or academic contexts.

Less Common Usage

'Obtain' in this sense implies that something is not just present but also widespread or established.

Prevalence Implied

 The enzymes remanufactured the hydrocarbons into carbohydrates -- fungal sugars. Some of these mushrooms are very happy mushrooms. They're very large. They're showing how much nutrition that they could've obtained. But something else happened, which was an epiphany in my life. They sporulated, the spores attract insects,

6 ways mushrooms can...

 In the morning, the stranger began to dig the foundations at an astonishing speed, and at nightfall he set off towards the mountains to obtain the building stones. But it was only the next morning, when they saw him returning, that the gods began to worry. As agreed, no other people were helping the mason.

The myth of Loki and the...

 invited the country to download a specifically designed phone app after collecting information on things like age occupation and overall health the app tracks people's approximate movements and lets them record the sort of social information that we know is important previous studies have obtained

How data can predict the...

 But skipping classes to spend more time in the lab and neglecting to show proper deference to his professors had derailed his intended career path. Passed over even for a lab assistant position, he had to settle for a job at the Swiss patent office, obtained with the help of a friend's father.

Einstein's miracle year...

 what you could obtain for them at a later time, but in an emergency, like the desert scenario, what matters far more is their use value, how helpful they are in your current situation. And because we only get to choose one of the options, we also have to consider its opportunity cost,

The paradox of value -...

 It will just jump, in fact. And this very elastic property is also very important. And you also see a bit these properties of these three segments of the leg as pantograph. Now, what's interesting is that this quite dynamic gait is obtained purely in open loop,

A robot that runs and...

 world's biggest consumers of luxury goods but it seems that even many of those who have obtained at least a degree of material wealth want more meaning in their lives than just the chance to go shopping tens of millions are turning to religious states near the

China: Consumerism and...

 If I really, truly understand what the world looks like from your perspective, I am empathetic. That requires imagination. And that is how we obtain understanding. And this is all over mathematics and this is all over computer science,

Math is the hidden...

 even if they live for thousands of years to come. So what exactly is stopping these trees from growing taller, forever? It all comes down to sap. In order for trees to grow, they need to bring sugars obtained from photosynthesis

How tall can a tree...

 obtain some special features of characters who live here I got used to it too much I think so for me routine and ordinary thing to realize I am bar

Obtain

To get something, especially by asking for it, buying it, working for it, or producing it from something else.

Often appears as...

To be prevalent, customary, or in vogue; to hold or have a place or prevalence.

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Slight Formality

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