Quotes with possesses

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  • Aberjhani Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
    The American Poet Who Went Home Again (2008)
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • St. Teresa of Avila O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Henry Miller Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Balthus The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • John Fischer The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
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  • C. Wright Mills The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • J. Martin Kohe The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
    J. Martin Kohe
    American self-help author
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  • Edgar Quinet The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet
    French poet, historian and politician (1803 - 1875)
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  • Andrew Carnegie There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Havelock Ellis We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Juvenal Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Albert Schweitzer One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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