#posse

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. ↗

— Douglas Haig

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The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

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I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession. ↗

— Julie Harris

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One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it. ↗

— Paul Harris

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In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

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To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#death #elements #envy #every #hunger

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

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