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It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. ↗

— Robert Shea

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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers. ↗

— Gail Godwin

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The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative. ↗

— Corliss Lamont

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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie. ↗

— Charles Edward Montague

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The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses. ↗

— John Fischer

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Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ↗

— Isaac Stern

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