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The possession of anything begins in the mind.


Bruce Lee
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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.


Rabindranath Tagore
Tags: Freedom Love Does
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Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.


Emile M. Cioran
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Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?


James Hetfield
Tags: Family You Really
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.


Pericles
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To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.


Peter Tosh
Tags: Truth Death You
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.


Mahatma Gandhi
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.


Andre Gide
Tags: You Only Give
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Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.


David O. McKay
Tags: Freedom More Than
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.


Vera Brittain
Tags: Your Never Am
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The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.


George Richards Minot
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
Louis Sullivan
Tags: Time Most Words
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A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.


Thomas Browne
Tags: Truth Just Man
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Hamish Bowles
Tags: Very Both Word
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
Neil Gaiman
Tags: Had Been Would
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.
John C. Calhoun
Tags: Time Power Been
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Zygmunt Bauman
Tags: Power Love Far
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tags: Much Too Give
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
Jen Lancaster
Tags: Most First Book
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
Henry James
Tags: Make Thing Own
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Susan Sontag
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.
Andrew Carnegie
Tags: Who Which He
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.
Harriet Martineau
Tags: More Life Had
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
William Ernest Henley
Tags: Poetry World Own
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus
Tags: Nature Out Which
To acquire possession of Latium was of the most decisive importance to Etruria, which was separated by the Latins alone from the Volscian towns that were dependent on it and from its possessions in Campania.
Theodor Mommsen
Tags: Alone Which Most
Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.
Robert Reich
Tags: Work You People
My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.
George W. Romney
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Tags: Good First Art
You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.
Xavi
Tags: You Me Want
I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!
Steve Wozniak
Tags: Because Very Than
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
Henry Chadwick
Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.
Vladimir Putin
Tags: Our Any Does
We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction.
Bob Graham
Tags: Think Had I Think
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.
Jules Verne
Tags: World Which Only
I want to try to prove the world wrong - that you can run and win in the NBA, and you can win big if you keep running. The problem is, can you run for 82 games every minute, every possession of every game?
George Karl
Tags: You Want World
When I was a boy, I took over the shed at the bottom of the garden and displayed fossils and potsherds and coins in it and proudly called it my 'museum'. I charged people to come in, and my most prized possession was a Saracen shield dating from the Crusades.
Kevin Crossley-Holland
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'
Simon Winchester
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.
Julia Ward Howe
Tags: God Me Will