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• If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Loss, Men, Done

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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• There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

  Gail Collins

  New York, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

  Paul Dirac

  People, Suffering, Wish

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• Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Real, Distribution Of Power, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Practice, Abduction, Use

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• Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Education, Time

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.61, 谷月社

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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

  Life, Easy, Epicureanism

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• Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Sacred, Rage, Profit

  Desiderius Erasmus, Margaret Mann Phillips (1967). “Erasmus on His Times: A Shortened Version of the 'Adages' of Erasmus”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• The wavering mind is but a base possession.

  Euripides

  Decision, Mind, Literature

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• But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Fashion, Struggle

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 31, 2011.

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• I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

  Edward Gibbon

  Friendship, Happiness, Sex

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

  William Hazlitt

  Hope, Lows, Hoping For The Best

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

  Robert Henri

  Play, Growth, Degrees

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Power, Government

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Everyday, Common

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public.

  Harry Houdini

  Secret, Church, Records

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.34, 谷月社

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• This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

  David Hume

  Goods, Insatiable, Universal

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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• The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Ocean, Land, Generations

  Thomas Henry Huxley “Selected Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, Library of Alexandria

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• We all live inside bodies that will deteriorate. But when you look at human beings, they're capable of very decent things: love, loyalty. When time is running out, they don't care about possessions or status. They want to put things right if they've done wrong.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Loyalty, Running, Looks

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• To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

  Henry James

  Appreciate, Intellectual, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

  Mother Jones

  Children, Cities, Profit

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• Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

  Meir Kahane

  Men, Judging, Satisfaction

  Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

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• I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

  John Keats

  Two, Luxury, Literature

  Letter to Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 2, p. 133

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• I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Hate, I Hate, Possessiveness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

  Christopher Lasch

  Children, Lying, Desire

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