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• Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1228, Delphi Classics

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• True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friends, True Friend, Delight

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• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Privilege, Merit

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The only ideals allowed are healthy ones - those everyone may aspire to, or comfortably imagine oneself possessing.

  Susan Sontag

  Health, May, Imagine

  Susan Sontag (1992). “The Volcano Lover”

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• Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.

  Alan Cinis

  Weed, Marijuana, Smoking

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• People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious busybodies. People who actually achieve political power are to be trusted even less than those who seek it without success; winning elections requires a measure of deceitfulness and Machiavellian immorality that no decent person comes close to possessing.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Winning, People, Political

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• Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and making us always want to have more, never satisfied. ‘Put on Christ’ in your life, place your trust in him, and you will never be disappointed!

  Pope Francis

  Giving, Thrill, Want

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• Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

  George Gissing

  Laughter, Fate, Farce

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.153, Booklassic

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• Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

  Aristotle

  Play, Political, Special

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• The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

  Plato

  Truth, Mean, Science

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• No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Christian, Civilization, Seeking

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• The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Giving, Promise, Despair

  "A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter". Book by Anne Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, 1728.

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• Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Gun, Land

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• Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.

  Richard Eberhart

  Country, Long, Energy

  Richard Eberhart (1979). “Of Poetry and Poets”, Urbana : University of Illinois Press

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• Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Running, Political, Liberty

  "All the Trouble in the World". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1994.

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• The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

  Rajneesh

  Capacity To Love, People, Looks

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• If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mean, Men, Grandfather

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• To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

  Philip Guston

  Paint

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Pain, Passion, Character

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

  Glenn Reynolds

  Home, College, Class

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• With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it; remain in this fixation until you have absorbed the life and name by claiming and feeling yourself to be and to have that which you desired. When you emerge from the hour of prayer you must do so conscious of being and possessing that which you heretofore desired.

  Neville Goddard

  Prayer, Doors, Names

  Neville Goddard (2016). “Your Faith is Your Fortune: The Classic Guide to Harnessing Your Power Within”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.

  Jane Goodall

  Kindness, Thinking, Rights

  "The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity". Book by Paola Cavalieri, Peter Singer, 1996.

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• I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy.

  Kate Millett

  Believe, People, Monogamy

  Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.105, University of Illinois Press

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• Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. Whatever I own is temporary, since we're only here for a short period of time. It's what we do and produce, it's our actions, that will last forever. That's real value.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Zero, Real, Thinking

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