For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change, they must be intensely discontented yet not destitute, and they must… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous,… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon… — Edwin Arthur Hall Copy Share Image
My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro,… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Every question "runs in a vicious circle" because political life as a whole is an endless chain consisting of an infinite number… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Love is a possession; it’s something that you own from the layers of people in your life. But if my life were… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
What is needed is the development in men of that particular type of skill which will enable them to make social use… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
Stewardship isn't a subcategory of the Christian life. Stewardship is the Christian life. After all, what is stewardship except that God has… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
The process of decolonisation in Nigeria was a very untidy one. The British, when they were leaving finally and knew exactly who… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I've got to think that that was unethical," Joshua said. "Josh, faking demonic possession is like a mustard seed." "How is it… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
“I resist the urge to claim some of the pretty purple flowers for myself, though Gaewha tries the scissors and then clutches… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing.… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
One of the things that I try to do when I have a tough time with anything - whatever it may be… — Michael Grimm Copy Share Image
No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see"… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
The love of money as a possession - as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The first objective of our national government is to provide for the common defense. And President Donald Trump has no higher priority… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
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