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If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man's inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself - a force that works against man or, against God, if you will. ↗

— Eric Butterworth

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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. ↗

— John Cage

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. ↗

— Robert Collier

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Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness. ↗

— Louis C. K.

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It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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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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Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

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