#possess

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. ↗

— George Grey

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To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing. ↗

— Philip Guston

#picturing #possessing #rather #than

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#become #defending #good #infantry #lost

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? ↗

— Frank Herbert

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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. ↗

— Herodotus

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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

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For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late. ↗

— David F. Houston

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God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible. ↗

— King Hussein I

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