#posse

Experts often possess more data than judgment. ↗

— Colin Powell

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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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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

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If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I still tour like a man possessed, because I am. ↗

— Ted Nugent

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I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

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