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Experts often possess more data than judgment. ↗

— Colin Powell

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#being #bombed #britain #burned #democracy

The possessions of the rich are stolen property. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#property #rich #stolen

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. ↗

— Jean Racine

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Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. ↗

— Paul Klee

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The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century. ↗

— Balthus

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Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#destruction #his #iraq #leader #mass

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

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Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

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