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• Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

  John Wilbanks

  Numbers, People, Increase

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• All men are, or ought to be free, possessing unalienable rights, and the high and noble qualifications of the laws of nature and of self-preservation, to think, and act, and say as they please, while they maintain a due respect to the rights and privileges of all other creatures, infringing upon none.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Color, Space, Light

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• Less possessing-less possessed.
  More possessing-more possessed.
  More possessed-less accessed.
  Less possessed-more accessed.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Possessed

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• Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men

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• It is time to tax and regulate marijuana like alcohol. It is time to end the arrests of so many people and the destruction of so many lives for possessing marijuana.

  Bernie Sanders

  Marijuana, People, Alcohol

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

  Warren Buffett

  Buffets, Ends, Owners

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• Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of our own imaginations and experience. But meanwhile, . . . we might do well to look upon the inadequacy of our concepts of God as the truest mirror of those limitations that define our condition.

  Ian Tattersall

  Mirrors, Imagination, One Day

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• The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Distance, Mean, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.135, Coventry House Publishing

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• Places come to exist in our imaginations because of stories, and so do we. When we reach for a "sense of place," we posit an intimate relationship to a set of stories connected to a particular location, such as Hong Kong or the Grand Canyon or the bed where we were born, thinking of histories and the evolution of personalities in a local context. Having "a sense of self" means possessing a set of stories about who we are and with whom and why.

  William Kittredge

  Mean, Thinking, Intimate Relationships

  William Kittredge (2010). “The Nature of Generosity”, p.13, Vintage

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• What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Life Is, Aim, Immense

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• A prayerful life is the key to possessing gratitude. We often take for granted the people who most deserve our gratitude. Let us not wait until it is too late for us to express our gratitude. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. If I gratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. To express gratitude is gracious and honorable, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live with gratitude ever in our hearts is to touch heaven.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Gratitude, Heart, Keys

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• We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Ignorance, Order

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

  Robert Cialdini

  Joy, Commodity, Scarce

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• As a human being, possessing education, talent, and recourses obligates you to help others less fortunate.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Helping Others, Talent, Recourse

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• Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.

  Roberto Esposito

  Country, Philosophical, Europe

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• What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.

  Jeff Melvoin

  Love, Change, Girl

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• As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother and later having a hostile relationship with my stepmother, there were all kinds of Freudian issues rising from possessing a female body that I had to negotiate with no guidance, and I did this negotiation almost instinctually.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

  Kevin Allen

  Men, Forgiving, Quality

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Perfection, Affection

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1039, GENERAL PRESS

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• That man is out of reach of harm in this life, who is sure of possessing heaven in the next. This is the portion of every believer.

  Samuel Willard

  Men, Heaven, Next

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• Possessing a powerful worldwide brand is essential for sustained success.

  Warren Buffett

  Powerful, Essentials, Brands

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• If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Mean, Race

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.503, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

  Arthur Frommer

  Thinking, Dubai, Cities

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