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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


#credit #given #man #out #possesses

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


James Cash Penney


#great #material #men #possessions #small

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


#before #circulating #could #lost #manner

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


#day #death #else #forever #found

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


#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

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


#addict #admire #books #characters #created

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


Sandra Lee


#cookbook #grandma #letters #martha #most

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


John Lennon


#nine-tenths #possession #problem

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






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