Possessing Quotes
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As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
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Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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Our world faces a crisis as yet unperceived by those possessing power to make great decisions for good or evil.
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Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.
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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
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Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed
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Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
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Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?
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There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
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After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters.
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.
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Possessing a weapon has made me bashful. Tears appreciate in this economy of pleasure. The ether of data engulfs the capitol. Possessing a weapon has made me forgetful. My oboe tars her cenotaph. The surface is in process. Coruscant skinks emerge in force. The moon spits on a copse of spruce. Plausible opposites stir in the brush. Jupiter spins in its ruts. The wind extends its every courtesy. I have never been here. Understand? You have never seen me.
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For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.
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Prudence replaces strength by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
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What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.
