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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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• Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  War, Money Power, Unhappiness

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• Take to the study of the law. Possession is nine points of it, which thou hast of me. Self-possession is the tenth.

  R.D. Blackmore

  Self, Law, Nine

  Annabella Bloom, Lucy Hartbury, Brenna Chase, M.J. Porteus, Emily Bronte (2015). “Wildly Wanton: 10 Spiced-Up Literary Classics”, p.4063, Interweave

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• For you have in your possession a sacred trust. Guard it well.

  B. J. Palmer

  Sacred, Wells

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• The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the Haves is a ritualistic justification of their possessions.

  Saul

  Spiritual, Decay, Materialism

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• We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

  Al Gore

  Country, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Gore speech, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 23, 2002.

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• The essential facts are known. We know of the weapons in Saddam's possession: chemical, biological, and nuclear in time. We know of his unequaled willingness to use them. We know his history. His invasions of his neighbors. His dreams of achieving hegemonic control over the Arab world. His record of anti-American rage. His willingness to terrorize, to slaughter, to suppress his own people and others. We need not stretch to imagine nightmare scenarios in which Saddam makes common cause with the terrorists who want to kill us Americans and destroy our way of life.

  Joe Lieberman

  Dream, Iraq, People

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• There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right.

  Paul Theroux

  Morning, Simple, Journey

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• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Desire, Territory

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Generations, Safari

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• There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

  Adrienne Rich

  Song, Art, Inspiration

  Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.117, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Luxury, Riches, Poor

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.

  Phil Callaway

  God, Christian, Hands

  Phil Callaway “Who Put My Life on Fast-Forward?: How to Slow Down and Start Living Again”, Harvest House Publishers

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• Never be too busy for the people you love. Never allow pursuits or possessions to become bigger priorities than your relationships. Love is what gives meaning to life.

  Dave Willis

  Love Is, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dave Willis from Mar 12, 2017

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• There is no greater egoism than that of learning when it is treated simply as a mark of personal distinction to be held and cherished for its own sake. ... [K]knowledge is a possession held in trust for the furthering of the well-being of all

  John Dewey

  Sake, Distinction, Mark

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• ...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do with souls or physical or spiritual possession; it was, as the Idirans well understood, the behavouristic copying of another which revolted. Individuality, the thing which most humans held more precious than anything else about themselves, was somehow cheapened by the ease with which a Changer could ignore it as a limitation and use it as a disguise.

  Iain Banks

  Spiritual, Challenges, Soul

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• These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Spiritual, Past, Soul

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• As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

  J. M. Coetzee

  July, People, September 11

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman is no less unjust than the possession of slaves; all men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Men, Rights

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• It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Desire, Limits, Impossible

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.346, Oxford University Press

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• I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.

  Claire Morgan

  Energy, Movement, Certain

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• And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it may all of a sudden happen to someone who cannot summon up any sense of reality — even in relation to himself — that one day he appears to himself as a man without qualities.

  Robert Musil

  Reality, Men, Giving

  Robert Musil (1953). “The Man Without Qualities: A sort of introduction. The like of it now happens (I)”

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• At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Should Have, Giving, Different

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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• Gospel possession requires gospel proclamation.

  David Platt

  Proclamation

  David Platt (2015). “Counter Culture: Following Christ in an Anti-Christian Age”, p.244, Tyndale House

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