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Tag Name "Possess" (890)

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Although I studied, I have never been taught paintingbecause I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.
Amrita Sher-Gil
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Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
Loren Eiseley
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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings.
Walter Lang
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Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big brother, began to change his point of view. He no longer hoped to right all things by his individual efforts. He turned to the law, to the government, to the state.
Walter Weyl
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The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.
John F. Kennedy
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Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.
Warren G. Bennis
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We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.
Wei Wu Wei
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There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Alice Walker
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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg
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I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.
Alfred Adler
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
Alexandre Dumas
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Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world.
William Bagley
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Man, having an ideal before him of that which he ought to be, and is not, and acting as though he possessed the character he ought to have, but has not, comes, by the very virtue of his aspiration, to possess the character he imagines.
William Batchelder Greene
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A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.
William Benton Clulow
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General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
William Blake
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We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.
William Boyd
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The means ought to be proportioned to the end the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
Alexander Hamilton
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[My work] is designed to speak for itself. as mementos of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that it will possess an enduring interest.
Alexander Gardner
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But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.
William Cowper
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Maybe truth is not something that I can possess. Maybe truth is something which possesses me.
Jon Foreman
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Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for we all think we possess a good share of it.
Rene Descartes
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To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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