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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

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

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

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.


Alphonsus Liguori


#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.


William Thomas Green Morton


#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."


Joseph Addison


#away #cannot #charitable #epitaph #gave

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.


Charles Baudelaire


#change #desire #every #his #hospital

I was possessed by London.


Manolo Blahnik


#london #possessed

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.


Edmund Burke


#limited #must #order #possessed






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