#posse

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#example #for example #idea #immediately #indeed

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world. ↗

— Max Born

#evil #oneself #only #possession #root

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. ↗

— Andre Breton

#booty #desire #industry #less #nothing

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#cares #enlargement #go #increase #multiply

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession. ↗

— Vera Brittain

#friend #i #i am #meek #never

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ↗

— John Cage

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