Possessed Quotes - Page 2

• We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Ideas, Ego

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• If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

  Rene Descartes

  Nature, Math, Animal

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• Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground his teeth and murmured, 'No quarter to the violators of our homes and firesides', and when someone deplored the necessity of destroying so many brave men, he exclaimed: 'No, shoot them all, I do not wish them to be brave.'

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, Home, Men

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• Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world and then it wants to divinely enjoy this oneness. Supreme Love transforms human love into divine love and blesses divine love with boundless joy and divine pride.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Pride, Oneness

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1063, Aum Publications

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• So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mean, Love Is, Self

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• It was a ludicrous, insane situation in which modern fighting men, possessed all of the highly destructive engines of war, were ordered to attack a medieval fortress using no weapons that would destroy or harm it.

  Dale Dye

  War, Marine, Fighting

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• While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

  Michael Polanyi

  Learning, Knowledge, Management

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• Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform.

  Confucius

  Heaven, Brilliant, Influence

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• It's that quality possessed by some which draws al others with magnetic force. With 'IT' you win all men if you are a woman–and all women if you are a man. 'IT' can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction.

  Elinor Glyn

  Winning, Men, Mind

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• The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother Hyrum,... It possessed the qualities of Urim & Thummim, since by means of it - as described above - as well by means of the Interpreters found with the Nephite record, Joseph was able to translate the characters engraven on the plates.

  B. H. Roberts

  Brother, Character, Mean

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• May we always be possessed by the consciousness that we are not our own.

  Watchman Nee

  May, Consciousness

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.83, CLC Publications

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• Dare to conceive of greater things for yourself. Dare to see yourself as strong, confident, successful, and possessed of the patience and stability to keep on moving in the direction of your dreams.
  
  "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream you shall become.
  Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be.
  Your idea is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

  Eric Butterworth

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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• In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

  David Ricardo

  Wealth, Lost, Trade

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo, Esq., M.P.: With a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.264, London, J. Murray

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• True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Doe, Found

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• Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Loss, People, Perfect

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• No government can be trusted, that does not trust its own people with military-style arms of greater weight and power than those possessed by the central government itself.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Military, Gun, Government

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• To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Beautiful, Drama, Lying

  Junichiro Koizumi (2003). “Japan and ASEAN in East Asia: A Sincere and Open Partnership”, p.13, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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• Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children.

  Dave Kopel

  Children, Home, Gun

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• A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

  Confucius

  Men, Good Man, Constancy

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• ...night possessed us and the shadow of death encompassed us, for we had fallen into sin and lost the power of sight which was ours by God's grace and by which we were able to perceive the light that bestows true life. Night and death had been poured out on our human nature, not because of any change in the true light, but because we had turned aside and no longer had any inclination towards the life-bearing light. In the last times, however, the Giver of eternal light and Source of true life has had mercy upon us.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Night, Shadow Of Death

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• Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Nice, Europe

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.110, VNR AG

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• Your enlightenment depends on the company you keep. You do not know the world until you know the men who have possessed it and tried its wares before you were ever given your brief run upon it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Running, Men, Company You Keep

  Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

  Bill Drayton

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Tests

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• I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Running, Strong Women, Heart

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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