The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types… — Toyotomi Hideyoshi Copy Share Image
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A lot of people don't think about it, but the Bible has every horror element that you can imagine. It's got the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
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Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
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My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Education in the true sense, of course, is an enablement to serve-both the living human community in its natural household or neighborhood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
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I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the… — Marietta Holley Copy Share Image
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What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts,… — Massasoit Copy Share Image
When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind.… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
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It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession… — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The excellence of metallic money in free circulation consists in the fact that it renders impossible the abuse of the power of… — Faustino Ballve Copy Share Image
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In an overly materialistic world, prosperity is unfortunately and invariably associated with hoards of money and countless possessions. Yet to the truly… — Ernie J Zelinski Copy Share Image
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It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us ask the Lord for the grace to take these things seriously. He came to fight for our salvation. He won… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
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She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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![“Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by…” quote by Niccolo Machiavelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/670/niccolo-machiavelli-368_accustomed_some-princes-so-as-to-hold-securely-the_1939657.jpg)
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