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There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Author:
Brigham Young
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I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
Author:
William Wharton
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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Author:
George Washington
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Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.
Author:
Henry Wade
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I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to do something in the way of entertaining that shall be the admiration and talk of all Washington world.
Author:
Julia Tyler
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
Author:
Peter Tosh
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
Author:
Rabindranath Tagore
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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Author:
Robert South
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Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.
Author:
Sophocles
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One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Author:
Sophocles
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As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Author:
Samuel Smiles
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It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Author:
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.
Author:
Phyllis Schlafly
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Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Author:
Carlos Santana
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Author:
Sallust
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Author:
Sallust
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Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Author:
John Ruskin
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We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.
Author:
Joseph Rotblat
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In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
Author:
Elihu Root
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
Author:
John Rockefeller
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Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
Author:
Robert Reich
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Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Author:
Michael Ramsey
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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Author:
Sidney Poitier
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Author:
Pericles
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For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
Author:
George Orwell
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The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Author:
Frederick Olmsted
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It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
Author:
Joyce Oates
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Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
Author:
George Norris
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
Author:
Albert Nock
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Author:
Anais Nin
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The greatest possession is self-possession.
Author:
Ethel Mumford
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
Author:
Kary Mullis
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In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
Author:
Jose Mourinho
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The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
Author:
Jose Mourinho
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The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.
Author:
George Minot
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
Author:
George Meredith
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Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
Author:
David McKay
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
Author:
Henry Maine
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Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
Author:
Ella Maillart
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The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Author:
Martin Luther
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The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
Author:
John Locke
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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
Author:
John Lennon
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Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Author:
John Lennon
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The possession of anything begins in the mind.
Author:
Bruce Lee
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
Author:
Ted Kotcheff
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Author:
Eli Khamarov
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I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Author:
John Keats
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I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.
Author:
David Kay
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This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
Author:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.
Author:
Nafisa Joseph
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Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
Author:
Mother Jones
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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Author:
Henry James
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When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.
Author:
Julia Howe
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Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Author:
Julia Howe
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.
Author:
Harry Houdini
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God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
Author:
Samuel Hopkins
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Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.
Author:
John Hope
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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Author:
Eric Hoffer
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Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Author:
Robert Henri
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
Author:
Albert Hart
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One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
Author:
Paul Harris
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I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.
Author:
Julie Harris
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Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Author:
Dick Gregory
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We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.
Author:
Bob Graham
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Author:
Andre Gide
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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
Author:
Katherine Gerould
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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The wavering mind is but a base possession.
Author:
Euripides
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Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Author:
Desiderius Erasmus
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Author:
Epicurus
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Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Author:
Epicurus
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Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
Author:
Pliny Elder
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Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Author:
Benjamin Disraeli
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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Author:
Paul Dirac
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I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
Author:
Graham Coxon
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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Author:
Robert Collier
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Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.
Author:
J. Coetzee
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
Author:
William Clifford
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Author:
Coco Chanel
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Author:
Chanakya
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Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
Author:
Henry Chadwick
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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At my age, I realize that my most precious possession is time, and I've got too much unfinished work to do to spend even a minute talking about myself.
Author:
Benny Carter
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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Author:
Andrew Carnegie
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Author:
Thomas Carlyle
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The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Author:
Albert Camus
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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.
Author:
Eric Butterworth
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Author:
Anthony Burgess
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Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
Author:
Pearl Buck
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Author:
Thomas Browne
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
Author:
Vera Brittain
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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Author:
Andre Breton
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The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.
Author:
Max Born
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.
Author:
Geoffrey Beene
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.
Author:
Henry Bates
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I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
Author:
John Barlow
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
Author:
James Baldwin
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Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.
Author:
Fredrik Bajer
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Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Author:
Francis Bacon
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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Author:
Gaston Bachelard
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Author:
Jane Austen
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Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Author:
Samuel Alexander
