Possession Quotes
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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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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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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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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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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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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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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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Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.
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I felt I was owned by possessions.
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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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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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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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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 use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.
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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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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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Great expectations are better than a poor possession.
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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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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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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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I was aware that on my skill as a painter would depend the physical and moral possession of the model.
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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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There must be power in the word of a satyagraha general, not the power that the possession of limitless arms gives, but the power that purifies life which strict vigilance and a ceaseless application produce.
