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• Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

  Ella Maillart

  Home, Conquer The World, Long

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• And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

  Melina Mercouri

  Greek, Invasion, Subjugation

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• Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

  Kary Mullis

  Kings, War, Gone

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• One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Civilization, Imperfection

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Elements, Arms, Cowardice

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.97, A&C Black

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• A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.

  George D. Prentice

  Men, Good Man, Secret

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• Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and nobler as they roll along: follow them back upstream to their sources and all you find is a tiny spring, hardly recognizable; as time goes by it swells with pride and grows in strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Pride, Law

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Lasts, Born

  Following the Equator ch. 42, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

  Aristotle

  Desire, Mankind, Property

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.57, Aristotle

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• It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

  Aristotle

  Long, Office, Easy

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.180, Aristotle

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• Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Henri Rousseau

  Luxury, Prosperity, Rich

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• To produce things and to rear them,
  To produce, but not to take possession of them,
  To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,
  To lead them, but not to master them -
  This is called profound and secret virtue.

  Laozi

  Happiness, Character, Profound

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• Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Unique, Soul, Individuality

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1974). “Christianity and Evolution”, Mariner Books

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• Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.

  Edward Ruscha

  Art, Thinking, Years

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• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• Time holds the final claim check for everything we gain or attain in this lifetime. All of our possessions, along with the people we love, are only loaned to us for a very short time by eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

  Frederick Lenz

  Enjoy Life, Doe, Consciousness

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• Without the power of intelligence there is no capacity for spiritual knowledge; and without spiritual knowledge we cannot have the faith from which springs that hope whereby we grasp things of the future as though they were present. Without the power of desire there is no longing, and so no love, which is the issue of longing; for the property of desire is to love something. And without the incensive power, intensifying the desire for union with what is loved, there can be no peace, for peace is truly the complete and undisturbed possession of what is desired.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Spring

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• My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

  Sandra Lee

  Grandma, Vintage, Letters

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• Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Children, Mean

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• Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that he does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession

  Saint Joseph

  Unique, Men, Free Gifts

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• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, Hands, Library

  "Counsels and Maxims". Vol. 2, Ch. 22, § 257 "On Thinking for Yourself" as translated in "Essays and Aphorisms" by R. J. Hollingdale, 1970.

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• The Word says, ‘Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world’ (1 John 2:15). Jesus warned, ‘Beware of covetousness: for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things which he possesses’ (Luke 12:15). Things—our possessions—can tie us down to this world. While heaven and hell prepare for war, we go shopping. Eternal values are at stake! The end of all we know is near—and we are busy playing with our toys!

  David Wilkerson

  Jesus, War, Men

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• Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

  Dan Davis

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

  Ted Kotcheff

  Never Quit, Understood, Direct

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