#possession

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#century #descriptions #each #gone #kings

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#emphatically #his #hope #man #other

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises. ↗

— Chanakya

#books #confined #his #knowledge #need

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#beings #conserve #cooperate #diminishing #fight

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#become #draw #family #feel #friends

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

#because #difficult #europeans #guilty #materialistic

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#capture #defined #developed #extend #institution

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

#because #cannot #easy #free #free life