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Possession Quotes
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. - Robert Henri Quotes
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates? - Samuel Hopkins Quotes
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. - Frederick Law Olmsted Quotes
It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind. - Matthew Simpson Quotes
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. - Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. - Miguel De Cervantes Quotes
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. - James A Baldwin Quotes
Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess. - Kary Mullis Quotes
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. - Samuel Smiles Quotes
Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so. - Michael Ramsey Quotes
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. - Elihu Root Quotes
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. - John Locke Quotes
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. - Thomas Bailey Quotes
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen Quotes
In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents. - Jose Mourinho Quotes
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. - Cicero Quotes
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together. - Robert Reich Quotes
We are certainly getting ahead; if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar. - Sigmund Freud Quotes
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. - Coco Chanel Quotes
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve. - Henry Chadwick Quotes
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. - J M Coetzee Quotes
Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable. - Meir Kahane Quotes
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. - John Ruskin Quotes
They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. - Henry Walter Bates Quotes
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. - William Hazlitt Quotes
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. - Peter Tosh Quotes
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. - Albert Camus Quotes
At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being. - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola Quotes
The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. - Paul Dirac Quotes
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. - Sidney Poitier Quotes
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