#possessed

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#the-dispossessed #science

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#african #always #dispossessed #hands #lead

We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#dispossessed #happen #most #revolutionary #struggle

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. ↗

— Dee Hock

#capacity #clearly #first #form #go

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

#british #destruction #french #further #germans

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 is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#anything #cannot #great #many #materialistic

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#constitutes #dependence #document #each #executive

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates. ↗

— Brad Delson

#fellow #i #ingenuity #inspired #intelligence