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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed. ↗

— Napolean Hill

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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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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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If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

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Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings. ↗

— Hugh Miller

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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

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

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