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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge. ↗

— Carl D. Anderson

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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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

— Fredrik Bajer

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Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another. ↗

— Geoffrey Beene

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

— Vera Brittain

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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

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Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. ↗

— Coco Chanel

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

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