#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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Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#denial #god #possession #right #sin

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

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

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ↗

— Epictetus

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

— Epicurus

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

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We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Bob Graham

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I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession. ↗

— Julie Harris

#everyone #football #i #know #much

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it. ↗

— Paul Harris

#possession #religion #right