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• There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Acres, Bloodshed

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• In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Important, Principles, Details

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

  Matthew Henry

  Grace, Sin, Satan

  Matthew Henry, J. Gill, Arthur W. Pink (2001). “Exposition of I and II Samuel”, p.161, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Soul, Whole, Ifs

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• It is easier to renounce worldly possessions than it is to renounce the love of them

  Walter Hilton

  Easier, Renounce, Worldly

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• Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

  Jerry Bridges

  Heart, Godly, Contentment

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Practice of Godliness”, p.84, NavPress

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• He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

  Thomas Merton

  Imagination, Trust In God, Hope In God

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

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• The completely simultaneous and perfect possession of
  unlimited life at a single moment.

  Boethius

  Single Mom, Perfect, Moments

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• Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

  Albert Einstein

  Stones, Necks

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• Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

  Gautama Buddha

  Mark, Fraud

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• Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lovely, Desirable

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.13, Modern Library

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• Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Pain, Games, Play

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.99, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• But I say to you, the Lord says, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, pray for those who persecute you. Why did he command these things? So that he might free you from hatred, sadness, anger and grudges, and might grant you the greatest possession of all, perfect love, which is impossible to possess except by the one who loves all equally in imitation of God.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Hate, Love You

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• Fasts and vigils, the study of Scripture, renouncing possessions and everything worldly are not in themselves perfection, as we have said; theyare its tools. For perfection is not to be found in them; it is acquired through them. It is useless, therefore, to boast of our fasting, vigils, poverty, and reading of Scripture when we have not achieved the love of God and our fellow men. Whoever has achieved love has God within himself and his intellect is always with God.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Reading, Men

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• God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible is the battle, in a person's innermost being, between God and the world. The crowning risk involved lies in the possession of choice.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Lying, Order

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• ...the grace of the Spirit takes possession of the quiet soul, and gives it a taste of the unspeakable good things to come, which no passionate and negligent eye has seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of such a man (cf. I Cor. 2:9). This taste is the earnest of these good things, and the heart which accepts these pledges becomes spiritual and receives assurance of its salvation.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Spiritual, Eye

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• Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

  Herodotus

  Honor, Shady

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Imagination, Triumph

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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• To be in love involves the most irresistible conviction that one will go on being in love until one dies, and that possession of the beloved will confer, not merely frequent ecstasies, but settled, fruitful, deep-rooted, lifelong happiness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Being In Love, Goes On, Beloved

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• In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

  Harsha Bhogle

  Sports, Team, Flaunting

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• If you want to be called a dwarf you must be in immediate possession of a battle axe cause otherwise your just a midget with an attitude.

  Ralphie May

  Attitude, Dwarves, Battle

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• The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one
  forget eternity and the fear of death.

  Gertrude Stein

  Ideas, Enemy, Awful

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.42, Random House

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• Possession of a program with unique analytic capabilities puts a scientist in as much of a priveleged position to make new discoveries as the possession of a powerful telescope.

  Heinz Pagels

  Powerful, Unique, Discovery

  Heinz R. Pagels (1988). “The dreams of reason: the computer and the rise of the sciences of complexity”, Simon & Schuster

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• The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

  William H. Wharton

  Taken, Government, Land

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• A friend is a possession we earn, not a gift.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Friendship

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