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• I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

  Harold Pinter

  Wise, Thinking, Literature

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• There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Islamic, Russia

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• It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Skills, People, Computer

  "They call me a criminal" by Kevin Mitnick, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2000.

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• The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Relationship, Real

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.106, Random House

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• Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

  Herbert Hoover

  Carpe Diem, History, Political

  Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”, C. Scribner's sons

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• Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

  Napoleon Hill

  Happiness, Think And Grow Rich, Happy Inspirational

  Napoleon Hill, E. Harold Keown (1989). “Succeed and grow rich through persuasion”, Signet

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• There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

  Billy Graham

  Inspirational, Life, Men

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2015

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• If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.

  Barbara Bush

  Basketball, Weakness, Dull

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• Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Knowing, Library, Guilty

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

  Stephen Covey

  Needs, Genuine

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.45, Mango Media Inc.

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• I have something to say to the religionist who feels atheists never say anything positive: You are an intelligent human being. Your life is valuable for its own sake. You are not second-class in the universe, deriving meaning and purpose from some other mind. You are not inherently evil—you are inherently human, possessing the positive rational potential to help make this a world of morality, peace and joy. Trust yourself.

  Dan Barker

  Atheist, Intelligent, Class

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed.

  Robert Frost

  Stills, Possessed

  Reginald Lansing Cook, Robert Frost (1974). “Robert Frost, a living voice”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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• Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

  Yukio Mishima

  Letting Go, Secret, Youth

  Yukio Mishima, Cecilia Segawa Seigle (1974). “The temple of dawn”, Harvill Secker

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• She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sleep, Climbing, Boots

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• Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone.

  David O. McKay

  Kings, Heart, Character

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• It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Light, People, Genius

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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• For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Eye, Color, Orange

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• Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting thorough my open mind possessing and caressing m

  John Lennon

  Joy, Mind, Sorrow

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• But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of all work, that the whole social structure rests on them; that the possessions of the others are absolutely worthless to them without the workers' activity; that such protests, such strikes, are inherent in the system of property and will continually recur until the whole thing is abolished - and having shown that effectively, proceed to expropriate.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Class, Organization, Social

  "Direct Action". Voltairine de Cleyre's Address in Chicago, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. January 21, 1912.

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• Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Keys, Joy

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• When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.

  Johannes Kepler

  Order, Mind, Elements

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• The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him, at her having existed before he met her, and of sadness for his possessing nothing of the ten million minutes of that black-and-white scallop-edged existence save these few proofs.

  Michael Chabon

  Sadness, Black And White, Two

  "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.

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• Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Power, Sight, Black

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Long, Sovereign

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.45, Open Road Media

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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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