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• One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Spain, Three, Needs

  Denis de Rougemont (1963). “Love Declared: Essays on the Myths of Love”

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• ... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Men, Thinking, Dancing

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If every man possessed everything he wanted, and no one had the power to interfere with such possession; or if no man desired thatwhich could damage his fellow-man, justice would have no part to play in the universe.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Play, Justice

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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• The highest praise we can attribute to any writer, painter, sculptor, builder, is, that he actually possessed the thought or feeling with which he has inspired us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.23, Harvard University Press

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• For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

  Miguel Serrano

  Collective Unconscious, Greek, Esoteric

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• We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ideas, Experience, Observation

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.

  Mason Cooley

  Riches, Poverty, Poor

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• A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Men, Relaxation, Use

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• Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Together, Example, Development

  "Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature". Book by Thomas Henry Huxley. Chapter 2, p. 127, 1863.

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• No one returns from Christianity to the same state he was before Christianity but into a worse state: the difference between a pagan and an apostate is the difference between an unmarried woman and an adulteress. For faith perfects nature but faith lost corrupts nature. Therefore many men of our time have lost not only the supernatural light but also the natural light which pagans possessed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Light, Differences

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• Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

  Audrey Meadows

  Umpires, Skills, Ideas

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• Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to men whose inner life is faint, for the inner life is full of nameless doubts.

  William E. Woodward

  Self Confidence, Men, Life Is

  "George Washington: The Image and the Man".

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• Not necessarily reputation, rank, societal position or status,but the happiness and enjoyment that a person pretends or fakes to derive with his possessed money or wealth or both make largely others jealous and envious of him.

  Anuj

  Jealous, Fake, Reputation

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• Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.

  E. B. White

  Running, Sight, Long

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• Being 'poor in spirit' (a Christian virtue) means being detached from things - being able to possess goods without being possessed by them. It meansputting people ahead of possessions - and seeing material things only as instruments for serving God and the needs of others.

  James Stenson

  Christian, Mean, People

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• In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

  Apollonius of Tyana

  Race, Cities, India

  "The Transition to a Global Society". Book by Kishor Gandhi, p. 17, 1991.

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• I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Ideas, Interesting

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• We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Generosity, Giving, Want

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• The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

  Walker Percy

  Loss, Identity, Age

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.165, Open Road Media

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• I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

  Brad Delson

  Band, Inspired, Mates

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• So there was not an "I" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Self, Toil, Limitless

  "The Crack-Up" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, www.esquire.com. 1936.

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• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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• Unless the concepts of work and play and reward for work change absolutely, women must continue to provide cheap labor, and even more, free labor exacted of right by an employer possessed of a contract for life, made out in his favor.

  Germaine Greer

  Work, Play, Favors

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• In that moment, when watches and clocks misbehave and you feel a cold vapor wrap itself around your heart, you unconsciously draw a line at the bottom of a long column of numbers and come up with a sum. Perhaps it's one that fills you with contentment and endows you with a level of courage and an acceptance that you didn't know you possessed.Or maybe not.

  James Lee Burke

  Heart, Acceptance, Numbers

  James Lee Burke (2010). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody?

  Freddie Mercury

  "I am the Champion". Interview with Nick Farrari, The Sun, www.queenarchives.com. July 19, 1985.

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