Quotes with possess

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  • William Blake To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Jean Francois Regnard To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
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  • Vauvenargues To possess taste, one must have some soul.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Henry van Dyke Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Henry van Dyke Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Adrienne Rich We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Oswald Chambers We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. ''In your patience possess your souls.''
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Arthur Blank We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.
    Arthur Blank
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry van Dyke What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Owens While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • E. M. Forster Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
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    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • J. Martin Kohe You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
    J. Martin Kohe
    American self-help author
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  • Lord Melbourne You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Louisa May Alcott A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Simone Weil The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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