Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.
quote by Cameron Diaz
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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
quote by Isaac Stern
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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
quote by Johannes Tauler
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A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.
quote by Robert Oxton Bolt
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A man possesses beauty in his quality and a woman possesses quality in her beauty.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.
quote by Charles de Gaulle
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Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
All I Had Going Is Gone
(ronnie rogers/mark wright)
The day we met
Ill never forget
Was the luckiest of my life
She took me so far
And I broke her heart
Now Im sittin' here
With the simple truth
That tears me apart
Chorus:
All I had goin' is gone
The best Ill ever do
Is over and done
It serves me right
cause I did her wrong
Now all I had goin' is gone
Sometimes a man
Just dont understand
He possesses everything life can bring
He thinks theres more
So he has to explore
Leavin' her alone
Time after time
Til she wlaked out my door
Now it serves me right
She left me alone
Now all I had goin' is gone
song performed by by Gary Allan
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Excelsior
WHO has gone farthest? For lo! have not I gone farther?
And who has been just? For I would be the most just person of the
earth;
And who most cautious? For I would be more cautious;
And who has been happiest? O I think it is I! I think no one was ever
happier than I;
And who has lavish'd all? For I lavish constantly the best I have;
And who has been firmest? For I would be firmer;
And who proudest? For I think I have reason to be the proudest son
alive--for I am the son of the brawny and tall-topt city;
And who has been bold and true? For I would be the boldest and truest
being of the universe;
And who benevolent? For I would show more benevolence than all the
rest;
And who has projected beautiful words through the longest time? Have
I not outvied him? have I not said the words that shall stretch
through longer time? 10
And who has receiv'd the love of the most friends? For I know what it
is to receive the passionate love of many friends;
And who possesses a perfect and enamour'd body? For I do not believe
any one possesses a more perfect or enamour'd body than mine;
And who thinks the amplest thoughts? For I will surround those
thoughts;
And who has made hymns fit for the earth? For I am mad with devouring
extasy to make joyous hymns for the whole earth!
poem by Walt Whitman
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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself and what he possesses else he lives precariously, and at discretion.
quote by James Burgh
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Possessiveness
Every inch of yours
is mine.
Every breath of yours
is mine.
Every space of yours
is mine.
Every move of yours
is mine.
I'm possessiveness
personified!
I need you, own you,
have you, possess you.
Every moment of your life,
all your time...is all mine!
Possessiveness
possesses me...
They say: detachment
is the best policy.
So here I go...
Let me renounce the world
to remain attached to thee!
Possessiveness owns me.
They say: remain aloof
to get detached. Separate
and go your own ways.
What they don't know is
Attachment has nothing
to do with proximity....
Even if you are far across
the seven continents
and the seven seas...
You'll never be able to
disown me!
I'm attached to you.
So are you, to me...
We are partners in possessiveness!
Every smell of yours
I possess
as if like a fragrance
I emanate from thee...
Every sight of yours
I possess, as if
in your eyes, you only
see me...
Possessiveness
possesses us...
like partners in fantasy.
This divine attraction
is the culmination of
love's orgasmic ecstasy!
poem by Aparna Chatterjee
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He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
quote by Leonardo da Vinci
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He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
quote by Benjamin Franklin
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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
quote by Joyce Maynard
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A man is poor not because he scorns possessions, but because he possesses nothing.
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
quote by Malcolm Cowley
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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
quote by Andrew Carnegie
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