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• It's ridiculous that we continue to incarcerate anyone for using a substance that actually causes far less damage than alcohol. No one goes out looking for fights on marijuana. No one dies from marijuana intoxication. And no one should be jailed for possessing marijuana.

  Susan Sarandon

  Fighting, Marijuana, Alcohol

  "Colorado Was Just the Beginning" by Susan Sarandon, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2013.

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• Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

  Joseph Pilates

  Self, Practice, Desire

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• All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

  George Mason

  Mean, Independent, Equality

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• We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Spiritual, Ideas, Unity

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “A doll's house”, p.14, Рипол Классик

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• Remember also: beyond the restless flowing electricity of life is the ultimate reality- The Void. Your own awareness, not formed into anything possessing form or color, is naturally void. The Final Reality. The All Good. The All Peaceful. The light. The Radiance. The movement is the fire of life from which we all come. Join it. It is part of you.

  Timothy Leary

  Reality, Color, Fire

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• If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirmed, then nucleic acids must be regarded as possessing biological specificity the chemical basis of which is as yet undetermined.

  Oswald Avery

  Dna, Principles, Acid

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• Writers that pretend to be in the throes of some kind of genius-demon, some kind of possessing spirit that refuses to let them engage with Normal Life are bullshit artists of the highest degree, looking to excuse their antisocial tendencies and bad manners away with a flourish of vocabulary and the semantic waving of hands.

  Matt Fraction

  Artist, Vocabulary, Hands

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• True religion is not about possessing the truth. No religion does that. It is rather an invitation into a journey that leads one toward the mystery of God. Idolatry is religion pretending that it has all the answers.

  John Shelby Spong

  Journey, Religion, Doe

  "Q&A on The Parliament of the World's Religions". Weekly mailing, September 5, 2007.

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• PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Power, Authority, Ministers

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.184, University of Georgia Press

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• Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

  Mark Twain

  Power, Self, Appreciate

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• Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Happiness, Spiritual, Comfort

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• A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Two Nations, Nuclear Missiles

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Dark, Men, Order

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• Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Zero, Interesting, Wealth

  "Homeless Billionaire Shuns 'Unsatisfying' Material Possessions Despite $5 Billion Worth" by Jim Gardner, www.christianpost.com. October 4, 2012.

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• If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Children, Taken, Intelligent

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.414, JHU Press

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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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• In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such enviable qualities as having strength under control, being calm and peaceful when surrounded by a heated atmosphere, emitting a soothing effect on those who may be angry or otherwise beside themselves, and possessing tact and gracious courtesy that causes others to retain their self-esteem and dignity. Instead of losing, the gentle gain. Instead of being ripped off and taken advantage of, they come out ahead!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Self Esteem, Taken, Thinking

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• The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.

  Pope John Paul II

  Attitude, Exercise, Profound

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• One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humor.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Thinking, Matter, Sense Of Humor

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• Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

  John G. Lake

  Mind, Christ, Sanctification

  John G. Lake (2010). “Your Power In The Holy Spirit”, p.43, Whitaker House

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• One of the proud joys of the man of letters - if that man of letters is an artist - is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Memories, Book, Artist

  Statement on February 08, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 135, 1962.

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• What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Voice, Dresses, Looks

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• There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Quality, Degrees

  Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee

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• Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

  Robert Schumann

  Believe, Creative, Would Be

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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