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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. ↗

— Henry Miller

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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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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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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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. ↗

— Andre Gide

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