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Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.


Michael Ramsey


#attitude #being #faith #knowledge #means

Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together.


Robert Reich


#around #assets #carry #financial #heads

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.


John D. Rockefeller


#every #implies #obligation #opportunity #possession

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.


Elihu Root


#always #another #country #desire #first

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.


Robert South


#expectation #finds #greatest #half #himself

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.


Peter Stuyvesant


#england #even #gates #hath #here

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.


Henry Cabot Lodge


#independence #more #only #ourselves #possession

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.


Thomas Mann


#culture #possessions #you

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.


Harriet Martineau


#effect #few #few things #genial #had

You could not spend your entire span of life in thrall to the code of stuff. There was no code of stuff. Stuff was just stuff. You couldn't live by it or for it.


John Lanchester


#life #material-possessions #stuff #life






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