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#posses

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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#century #certain #decade #desires #done

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.


Anne Morrow Lindbergh


#accepting #back #demanding #even #expecting

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.


Walter Lippmann


#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.


John Locke


#being #equal #harm #health #his

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.


John Locke


#error #him #man #one thing #possession

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.


H. P. Lovecraft


#books #floor #furniture #go #i

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.


Joanna Lumley


#any #dalai #dalai lama #freedom #freedom of speech

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.


Martin Luther


#hands #held #i #lost #many

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.


Martin Luther


#burden #choose #contend #god #goes






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