Possession Quotes - Page 33

• In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

  Max Lerner

  Civilization, Environmental, Cocoons

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

  Jeremy Lin

  Play, Trying, Energy

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• All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

  John Locke

  Peace, War, Independent

  John Locke (1821). “Two treatises of government”, p.191

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• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

  John Locke

  Education, Truth, Philosophical

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 4, ch. 7, sec. 11 (1690)

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• The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

  Martin Luther

  Wish, Satan, Beast

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• Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

  James Madison

  Men, Political, Liberty

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.478

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• Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Happiness, Positivity, Inner Peace

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Enemy, Literature, Authority

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• Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions... entertainment... cares and anxieties... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

  Joyce Meyer

  Heart, Opportunity, Passionate Desire

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• In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

  Jose Mourinho

  Team, Years, Inspirational Soccer

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• The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Power, World, Arbitrary

  Frederick Law Olmsted (1856). “A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on Their Economy”, p.115

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• Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

  Patton Oswalt

  Hands, Way, Slave

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2007.

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• Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

  James Cash Penney

  Men, Economy, Materials

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• The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Rich, Stolen, Prized Possessions

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• Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Mass Destruction, Data

  "Putin demands proof over Iraqi weapons". Article by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of a controlled substance.

  Pat Robertson

  Thinking, Wind, People

  "Pat Robertson: Pot should be legal like alcohol". www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2012.

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• After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Important

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Money, Freedom

  "Principles of Social Reconstruction". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1917.

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• Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

  Mort Sahl

  Political, Politics, Conservative

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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

  George Santayana

  Children, Men, Exertion

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.48, 谷月社

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• When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Looks, Way, Fence

  Morrie Schwartz (2011). “Morrie In His Own Words: Life Wisdom From a Remarkable Man”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Emotional, Careers, People

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

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• Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

  Samuel Smiles

  Wisdom, Perseverance, Journey

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.462, The Floating Press

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• If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

  Alexander Smith

  Strong, Character, Race

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.38, tredition

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