Possession Quotes
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Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary.
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Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have. The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.
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It's important to understand the policy of the U.S. towards North Korea is to deny North Korea possession of a nuclear weapon and the ability to deliver that weapon. Our strategy has been to undertake this peaceful pressure campaign we call it enabled by the four no's.The four no's being that we do not seek regime change, a regime collapse, an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, and we do not seek a reason to send our forces north of the demilitarized zone.
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He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.
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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.
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The greatest possession is self-possession.
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
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Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
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The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
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When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet.
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I have no intention of selling any more of the historical Apollo 11 items in my possession for the remainder of my life. I intend to pass a portion of these items on to my children and to loan the most important items for permanent display in suitable museums around the country.
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Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
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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.
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All religions, with their gods, their demigods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the credulous fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.
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I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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The time period lying between command of goods of a higher order and possession of the corresponding goods of lower order can never be eliminated.
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Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
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The possession of power brings on madness.
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, Niels Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I have met. He utters his opinions like one perpetually groping and never like one who believes himself to be in possession of the truth.
