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Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.
Gouverneur Morris
Government
People
Fear
Nation
Every
Other
Possess
Never
Advantage
Almost
Over
Armed
Because
American
Being
Which
Need
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
Henry Van Dyke
Death
Day
You
World
Will
Else
Possess
Someone
Forever
Your
Yours
Found
Belong
Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage.
Jason Reynolds
Strength
Integrity
Courage
Fly
Nothing
Possess
Willpower
Ability
Superhuman
Having
Superpower
Superpowers
Most
Importantly
Truest
Jump
Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life
Love
Relationship
You
Will
Made
Understanding
Possess
Hideous
Possessive
Find
Through
True
Ideals
Without
Answer
Causes
Escape
Personal
Dependence
Cannot
Agonizing
Beliefs
I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.
Pope Benedict XVI
Way
Say
Possess
We Cannot
Ourselves
Would
Spirit
Give
No-One
He
Simply
Render
Effective
Effective Way
Close
Cannot
Which
Personally
Holy
Means
Transmit
Holy Spirit
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali
Love
Good
Great
You
Respect
Youth
Society
Lasting
Kick
Possess
Give
Good Thing
Talent
Great Talent
Very
Snob
Order
After
Acquire
Your
Hard
Growing
Right
Thing
Early
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Stephen Covey
Strength
Great
Character
Heart
Great Deal
Values
Sense
Possess
Out
Security
Must
Rather
Takes
Himself
Principles
Deal
Genuinely
Quickly
Than
Person
Order
Pity
Apologize
Deep
Fundamental
Fundamental Principles
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Alfred Adler
Inferiority
Human Being
Feeling
Own
Possess
Has-Been
Constantly
More
Emotional
Powerful
Towards
Greater
Been
Human
Being
Experienced
Which
Urge
Means
Agitation
Conquest
Violent
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
Dave Pelzer
People
Strong
Better
Cause
Negative
Understanding
Possess
Strong Desire
Environment
Wrong
Persist
Any
Break
Themselves
Chain
Right
Basic
Basic Understanding
Desire
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Art
Quality
Strong
Possess
Striving
Admiration
Us
I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. Lovecraft
Library
Before
Live
Books
Furniture
Indeed
Possess
Week
Part
Without
Go
Private
Squat
Let Go
Floor
Sleep
I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.
Janet Varney
Truth
Truth Is
Fear
Exploitation
Believe
Tools
Possess
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Victimization
Against
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx
History
Fight
Men
Nothing
Living
Possess
Immense
Battles
Does
Real
Riches
Who
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
Kate Chopin
Art
Soul
Own
Possess
Gifts
Must
Absolute
Moreover
Courageous
Been
Effort
Artist
Which
Succeed
Acquired
Much
Many
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson
Life
Man
Every
Possess
Attempting
He
Part
Almost
Qualities
Does
His
Which
Display
Wastes
Every Man
Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Thales
Hope
Good
Men
Nothing
Else
Possess
Those
Only
Still
Common
Who
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Power
Virtue
Possess
Proof
Highest
Abuse
Boundless
Without
People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.
Zoe Saldana
Strength
Quality
Women
People
Think
Latin
Possess
Latina
True
Proud
Blood
Very
Being
Which
Fierce
Fiery
Many
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
Ada Lovelace
Myself
Nature
Me
Believe
Possess
Hidden
Exactly
Combination
Most
Qualities
Make
Singular
Discoverer
Fitted
Realities
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
Albert Schweitzer
Love
Earth
Possess
Proof
Spirit
Highest
Which
Eternal
Really
Thing
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois
Too Much
Too
Enough
Possess
Must
Having
Wit
Witty
Much
Avoid
Sufficient
Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
Dada Vaswani
You
Money
Enthusiasm
Power
Further
Possess
Take
Greatest
Greatest Asset
Than
Influence
Asset
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
Dylan Thomas
Fool
Become
Whatever
Own
Increase
Ease
Possess
Diminish
Vanity
Talents
May
Upset
Ordinary
Suddenly
Now
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi
Me
Poverty
Own
Other
Beneath
Our
Possess
Distinctive
Sun
Sign
Name
Glory
Does
Permit
Sublime
Begging
Than
Order
Anything
Your
Grant
Treasure
One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.
Jocko Willink
Good
Emotions
Key
Leader
Situation
Chaos
Possess
Detach
Must
Ability
Clear
Qualities
Make
Mayhem
Happening
Decisions
Based
Actually
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
Wisdom
Honesty
Honesty Is
World
Wealth
Possess
Rarest
Lawful
Tender
Anyone
Bread
Loaf
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