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I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

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• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Him

• Slim Shady, Eminem was the old initials.

  

  Eminem
  • Old
  • Slim
  • Initials

• I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Stage
  • Fine
  • Possession

• Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Power
  • Excellence
  • Possession

• Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Possession

• Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

  

  Zbigniew Herbert
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Finals

• State law specifically prohibits possession of stun guns and related weapons, ... This agreement will help ensure that the Internet is not used to facilitate illegal activity.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Help
  • Law
  • Weapons

• Possessions, for the terminally frightened, bring peace of mind.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Possession

• You will have to learn many tedious things,...which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Lost
  • Learning
  • Finals

• I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • America
  • Fear

• Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Truth
  • Secret
  • Possession

• I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the final thing, it's the first thing, which may just be the suggestive, vague identification of something that you have to come back to and rewrite.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Teach
  • Student
  • Finals

• They get to the quarter-finals, Bill, I'll show up with a dress on

  

  Eamon Dunphy
  • Up
  • Memorable
  • Dresses

• The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Lasts
  • Finals
  • Being Yourself

• We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

  

  Peter Brook
  • Music
  • Possession
  • Invisible

• I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Trying
  • Hate
  • Possession

• There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

  

  Socrates
  • Friend
  • Possession
  • Valuable

• Beauty is a possession not our own.

  

  Bion of Smyrna
  • Beauty
  • Possession

• You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

  

  Catharine MacKinnon
  • Men
  • Father
  • Pain

• On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Women
  • Health
  • Insurance

• I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

  

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