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• The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Men, Treasure, Riches

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• Man has existed for about a million years. He has possessed writing for about 6,000 years, agriculture somewhat longer, but perhaps not much longer. Science, as a dominant factor in determining the belief of educated men, has existed for about 300 years; as a source of economic technique, for about 150 years. In this brief period it has proved itself an incredibly powerful revolutionary force. When we consider how recently it has risen to power, we find ourselves forced to believe that we are at the very beginning of its work in transforming human life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Powerful, Believe, Writing

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.1, Routledge

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• People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it.

  Doris Lessing

  Strong, War, People

  Doris Lessing (2013). “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.

  Simone Weil

  Girl, Spiritual, Eye

  "On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God". Book by Simone Weil. Translated by R. Rees, "Morality and literature," p. 164, 1968.

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• Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Loneliness, Tranquility, Charm

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'.”, p.13

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• The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely acquired the rudiments of religious instruction, turned with childlike attachment to men whose minds were stored with the knowledge of Scripture, of Cicero, of St. Augustine; and in the scanty world of their ideas, the Church was felt to be something infinitely vaster, stronger, holier than their newly founded States.

  Lord Acton

  Religious, Book, School

  Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.29, VM eBooks

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• Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Office, Advantage

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.400

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• I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

  Dorothy Day

  Prayer, Giving, Special

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• All the great Founders of religions have been possessed of clairvoyant sight.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Sight, Clairvoyant, Founders

  Rudolf Steiner (2013). “The Essential Rudolf Steiner”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Progress, Spirit

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Talent, Like You

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• The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christianity, Felt

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.171, Editora Dracaena

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• I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Vision

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.112, OUP Oxford

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• Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Daughter, Self, Practice

  'An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification' (1787)

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• I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

  Ella Reeve Bloor

  Thinking, Poet, Nature Beauty

  Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

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• But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Never Quit, Possession, Understood

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• To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Perfect, Reign

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• The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Evil, Baptism

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• A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed by it are not likely to care very much for people.

  William E. Woodward

  Dog, Horse, Emotional

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• A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Art, Men, Abuse

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• It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

  Saint Augustine

  Son, Riches, Lifetime

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The City of God”, p.231, Catholic Way Publishing

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• In order to exert influence over people, there were other things that could be used besides love. Knowledge seemed to be an equally strong force, perhaps even stronger. Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

  Peter Prange

  Strong, Heart, Passion

  Peter Prange (2012). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Abnormal, Mania, Grandeur

  graf Leo Tolstoy, Nathan Haskell Dole (1911). “The Complete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”

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• The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Ambition, Two

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• Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... The pathways of the most various philosophical modes of life lead back to him... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Soul

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