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Tag Name "Possessing" (168)

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It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.
D.E. Stevenson
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We cheat ourselves in order to enjoy a calm conscience without possessing virtue.
Lambert of Maastricht
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While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of marijuana remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.
Lawrence O'Donnell
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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.
P. J. O'Rourke
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For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep and its main front would face the south.
Aristotle
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Giving birth and nourishing, Bearing yet not possessing, Working yet not taking credit, Leading yet not dominating, This is the Primal Virtue.
Laozi
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Art is a way of possessing destiny.
Marvin Gaye
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She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or it was seven pairs of boots climbing up the stairs to find her.
Francesca Lia Block
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I have toured with Klemens Marktl, playing his original compositions and arrangements. He is a wonderful drummer, a writer possessing a high degree of creativity, and an assured band leader.
Joe Locke
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It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida Dutton Scudder
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Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.
John Wilbanks
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If Woody Guthrie set the bar for American songwriters, Bob Dylan jumped right over it. No one I know will ever come close to possessing the beauty of melody and the use of language that Dylan shares with us, with ease.
John Mellencamp
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All in all, I think that out of all musical genres, the world of metal is the most escapist one. Metal is also music for people who think for themselves. I think metalheads are smart people who possess a healthy dose of self-irony and a good sense of humor, and that appeals to me. I felt a strong affinity with the scene from the first moment on.
Tuomas Holopainen
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color. - Ernest Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway
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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
Sara Teasdale
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I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.
Mihai Eminescu
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.
Simone Weil
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It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.
Pope Pius XI
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Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts possessing fire, nothing else matters.
Samuel Chadwick
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Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
Bob Ross
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Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.
Thomas Jefferson
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I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.
Harold Pinter
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We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.
Jaggi Vasudev
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Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.
Banksy
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