#posse

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor. ↗

— Alexander Smith

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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ↗

— Stendhal

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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out. ↗

— Casey Stengel

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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

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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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Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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Experts often possess more data than judgment. ↗

— Colin Powell

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