Possessors Quotes
36 quotes by 31 authors
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.
— Charles Babbage
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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster…
— Octavio Paz
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The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These…
— Rumi
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its…
— Karl Marx
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Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from before them, to…
— Thomas Traherne
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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One…
— George Gissing
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Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also…
— John Vianney
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For…
— George Sutherland
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To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as…
— Eduardo Galeano
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living…
— Joseph Pilates
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
— Andre Gide
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Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
— Mark Twain
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We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things…
— Ralph Caplan
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The Welsh are not like any other people in Britain, and they know how separate they are. They are the Celts, the tough little wine-dark…
— Laurie Lee
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One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties' what…
— John Szarkowski
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Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as…
— Russell Kirk
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors...
— Joseph Pilates
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