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• All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Needs, Trouble

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• You see, we need instruction on how to possess money without being possessed by money. We need help to learn how to own things without treasuring them. We need the discipline that will allow us to live simply while managing great wealth and power.

  Richard J. Foster

  Discipline, Needs, Helping

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.

  Conrad Veidt

  Acting, Tasks, Spirit

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• The adventure evoked a quality of his character that he didn't know he possessed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  TV Mini-Series "The Power of Myth" ("Episode 1", Chapter 12), 1988.

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• When you listen to what entities say, the gradually work their way into your thoughts. After a while you will start thinking their thoughts. You won't know they aren't your thoughts. Soon you will be fully possessed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Way, Entity

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• A revolution does not march a straight line. It wanders where it can, retreats before superior forces, advances wherever it has room, attacks whenever the enemy retreats or bluffs, and above all, is possessed of enormous patience.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Doe, Lines

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• The most powerful force possessed by the individual citizen is her own government. ... Government is the only organized mechanism that makes possible that level of shared disinterest known as the public good.

  John Ralston Saul

  Powerful, Government, Individuality

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• To possess money is very well; it may be a valuable servant; to be possessed by it is to be possessed by the devil, and one of the meanest and worst kind of devils.

  Tryon Edwards

  Money, Devil, May

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.867, Ravenio Books

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• Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Skulls, Skins

  "Whispers of Immortality" l. 1 (1919)

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• Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.

  Aeschylus

  Mind, Standing Alone, Obstinacy

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus I: The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes, The Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• The comics were not only stories to enjoy for me they were drawings that possessed me.

  Jean Giraud

  Drawing, Stories, Enjoy

  "Moebius on his art, fading eyesight and legend: ‘I am like a unicorn’". Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. April 2, 2011.

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• I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.

  Mamie Gummer

  Paris, Capes, Cape Cod

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Sight, Scotland

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 26, 1799.

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• Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  Battle, Moral, Infantry

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• Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling.... Of that which is in mortal in mortals, and possessed of the truth, is a God and established inwardly as an energy working out in our divine powers.... Become high uplifted, O Strength, pierce all veils, manifest in as the things of the Godhead.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Moving, Work Out, Shining

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• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  Karl Radek

  Party, Mean, Ideas

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• It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.

  Samuel Johnson

  Knowledge, Reality, Ideas

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.629

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• Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mean

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• There were certain qualities you possessed carelessly. And you couldn't retrieve them when they were gone. The very act of caring made them impossible to regain.

  Ann Brashares

  Caring, Quality, Gone

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.

  Adolf Hitler

  People, Giving, Hatred

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• If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Essence, Boredom, Would Be

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

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• But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Taken, Magic

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Men, Soul, Despair

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2012). “The Beautiful and Damned”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• Why, oh why, had Jace picked a fight with a pack of wolves? What had possessed him? Then again, it was Jace. He'd pick a fight with a Mack truck if the urge took him. -Clary, pg.40-

  Cassandra Clare

  Fighting, Mack, Truck

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• She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Bystanders, Realizing, Destruction

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2011). “The Man of My Dreams”, p.45, Random House

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