#possess

While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions. ↗

— Bill Owens

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I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer. ↗

— David Sedaris

#deer #possessions #funny

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Angels possess greater powers than do human beings. ↗

— Walter Lang

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My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#cookbook #grandma #letters #martha #most

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#constitutes #earnest #effort #forward #man

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