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When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. ↗

— Robert Shea

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There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government - alone among the governments of the world - will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess. ↗

— Jim Talent

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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

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