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Tag Name "Possession" (879)

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Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
Baltasar Gracian
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Possessions are not God's blessing and goodness, but the opportunities of service which he entrusts to us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.
Paul Virilio
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Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber
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Possession of books denounced as heretical was made a criminal offense. Copies of such books were burned and destroyed. But in Upper Egypt, someone, possibly a monk from a nearby monastery of St Pachomius, took the banned books and hid them from destruction - in the jar where they remained buried for almost 1,600 years.
Elaine Pagels
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Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?
Eli Roth
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Possession means to sit astride the world Instead of having it astride of you.
Charles Kingsley
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Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.
African Spir
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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith
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Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Possession is nine-tenths of the law.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.
Jonathan Swift
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
Rita Mae Brown
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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
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One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.
Michael Parenti
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Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.
Mark Twain
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On every dishonest man, there are two watchmen, his possessions, and his way of living.
Umar
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The reduction of the earth to an object simply for human's use/ possession is unthinkable in most traditional cultures... the earth belongs to itself and to all the component members of the community.
Thomas Berry
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Never measure your life by possessions. Measure it by the hearts you've touched, the smiles you created & the love you shared.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
William Golding
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.
Immanuel Kant
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