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The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses. ↗

— Lowell Thomas

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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed. ↗

— David Ricardo

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What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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

— Sandra Lee

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Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem. ↗

— John Lennon

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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

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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

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