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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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• I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

  Clara Schumann

  Ideas, Creative, Desire

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• For centuries the church has confronted the human community with role models of greatness. We call them saints when what we really often mean to say is 'icon,' 'star,' 'hero,' ones so possessed by an internal vision of divine goodness that they give us a glimpse of the face of God in the center of the human. They give us a taste of the possibilities of greatness in ourselves.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Stars, Hero, Mean

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• Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

  Stormie Omartian

  Jesus, Receiving

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• This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something he has made himself.

  Hannah

  Men, Years, Free Gifts

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• We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.

  Alan Redpath

  Men, Thinking, Mind

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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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• Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, World, Stuff

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

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• I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

  Bruce Lee

  Warrior, Light, Medicine

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.348, Tuttle Publishing

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• We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to the brink of extinction and siphoned oil from the earth as if it possessed an infinite supply. We've sold off our planet's natural capital and called it income. And now the earth, like the economy, is stripped.

  Kalle Lasn

  Ocean, Cutting, Past

  "Hey President Obama". Adbusters, March 24, 2009.

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• The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

  Galeazzo Ciano

  Fighting, Decision, Demon

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• So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, Reputation, Sanctity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 52, 1799.

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• But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too weary to go on, and takes stock of where it's been and where it's going. During these gloomy pauses, we often discover parts of ourselves we never knew we possessed, talents that, properly activated, enrich our lives.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Grief, Soul, Suffering

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• Personal righteousness is a choice. Faith is a gift from God, and one possessed of it can receive enormous spiritual power.

  Kevin W. Pearson

  Spiritual, Choices, Enormous

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• Painting is possessed of divine power, for not only does it make the absent present, but also makes the dead almost alive.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Doe, Alive, Divine Power

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• Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we treat it as absent, as dead, although it is still present - but above all in the sense of its radical dissection: the word 'quarters' the thing, it tears it out of the embedment in its concrete context, it treats its component parts as entities with an autonomous existence: we speak about color, form, shape, etc., as if they possessed self-sufficient being.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Self, Color, Tears

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out”, p.51, Psychology Press

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• I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Being Yourself, Humility, People

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• The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Loss, Soul, May

  Virchand Raghavji Gandhi (1993). “Religion and Philosophy of the Jainas”

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• Although the many virtues that courtesans possessed were employed to defy circumstances, the role they played depended on the same circumstances over which they triumphed- conditions which to, fortunately for modern women, no longer exist.

  Susan Griffin

  Roles, Modern Woman, Virtue

  Susan Griffin (2002). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, p.17, Broadway Books

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• If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information.

  Dee Hock

  Cells, Single Life, Information

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• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Men

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

  Isak Dinesen

  Paris, Splendor, Felt

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• Love hath so long possessed me for his own
  And made his lordship so familiar.

  Dante Alighieri

  Long, Made, Familiar

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The New Life”, p.56, Dante Alighieri

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• You can either tell yourself, 'It's too hard, I don't think I'll be able to do it,' or 'Yes, I can do this. Let me at it!' Only a fine line separates the two. But I'll tell you one thing: if you work like crazy, you'll come to display capabilities that you never knew you had--potentials that you always possessed, but never tapped.

  Josei Toda

  Motivational, Crazy, Work

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