Quotes with possession

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  • Henry James 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
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Mary Webb To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fi
    Mary Webb
    English novelist and poet
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  • Bruce Feirstein To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • Peter Stephen Paul Brook We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him, if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.
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  • Bob Graham 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
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Carl Rowan We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!
    1981 column.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Eric Hoffer When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Carl Stokes When you start dealing with real change you are talking about interferring with those who are in possession of something.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Francis Bacon Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Smiles Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Andre Breton Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Thomas Fuller Prospect is often better than possession.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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