Possession Quotes
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The key is to maintain an evenness. Try to play one possession at a time, regardless of what happened on the last possession...
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.
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In every game, there's three teams out there. There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.
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Modern society has not rid itself of religion, as it fondly believes; it has merely replaced the historical religions by a host of idolatrous cults struggling for possession of the soul of man.
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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
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To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.
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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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The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.
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There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.
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I felt I was owned by possessions.
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realized it, he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers.
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The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.
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A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.
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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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There is one possession that can never be taken away as long as you will not allow it to be taken, and that is your word.
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The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
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Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.
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The property of manliness in a man is a great possession, but perhaps there is none that is less understood, which is more generally accorded where it does not exist, nor more frequently disallowed where it prevails.
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Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.
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Other writers of history recorded the fighting of wars waged for the sake of children and country and other possessions. But our narrative of the government of God will record in ineffaceable letters the most peaceful wars waged in behalf of the peace of the soul.
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Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day.
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And it gives me positive personal pain to see heirs of the eternal kingdom, made such by the ignominious death of their Lord, go shrinking and weeping to the full possession of their inheritance.
