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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

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Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. ↗

— Paul Klee

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A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. ↗

— Georges Rouault

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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. ↗

— Walter Scott

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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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Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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

— Corliss Lamont

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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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