#posse

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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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

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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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The possessions of the rich are stolen property. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. ↗

— Jean Racine

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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want. ↗

— Waverley Lewis Root

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. ↗

— Jane Austen

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