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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Albert Schweitzer
Adversity
Strength
Overcome
Possesses
Only
Obstacles
Overcoming
Overcoming Obstacles
Which
Gains
Who
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim
Great
You
Age
Our
Possessed
Possesses
Possessions
Relinquish
Outlived
Materialistic
Anything
Cannot
Us
Usefulness
Many
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran
Love
Love Is
Will
Possessed
Possesses
Unto
Nor
Sufficient
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
St. Jerome
Justice
Other
Others
Virtues
Pleases
Pleasure
Possesses
Possessing
Someone
Give
Instead
Greater
Does
How
Than
May
Them
Ask
Who
Gratify
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine
Death
Communism
People
Envy
Language
Every
Possesses
Hunger
Understand
Which
Elements
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
Andrew Carnegie
Class
Money
Nothing
Else
Possesses
Wretched
Which
A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott
Knowledge
History
Mechanic
Lawyer
Possesses
Some
Architect
He
Mere
Mason
Venture
Call
Himself
Without
May
Literature
Working
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus
World
Paradise
Possesses
He
Wishes
Does
Souls
Gold
Succeeds
Who
Helping
Treasure
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art
Needs
Religion
Science
Possess
Possesses
He
Does
Them
Who
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.
Carl Jung
Collective
Everybody
Sum
Possesses
Consists
Archetypal
Archetypes
Unconscious
He
Instincts
Also
Stock
Just
Images
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
Kate Winslet
Strength
Every
Think
Way
Possesses
Drawn
Characters
One Thing
Some
More
Obviously
Because
Always
Passionate
Person
Often
Experienced
Even
Element
Lives
Thing
Hardship
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
Saint Ambrose
Better
Church
Aid
Possesses
Scatter
Abroad
Better Thing
Had
He
Come
Without
Souls
Lord
His
Than
Hoard
Gold
Form
Unfortunate
Sent
Forth
Apostles
Who
Thing
Treasures
Need
Save
Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
Charles Krauthammer
Life
Time
You
Innocent
Evil
First
Possesses
Circumstances
Bad
Easy
Torture
Bad Guy
Case
Guy
Except
Could
He
Ticking
Time Bomb
Refuses
Information
Stake
Choice
Captured
Bomb
Two
Save
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
Federico Fellini
Eyes
Cinema
Lost
Our
Once
Possesses
Dream
Charisma
Dreamt
Charm
Habit
Hypnotic
Open
Disappeared
Longer
Because
Authority
Public
Us
Held
Image
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.
Paul Klee
Me
Happy
Will
Possess
Possesses
Color
Pursue
Hour
Know
Always
Am
Meaning
Meaning Of
Painter
According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
Annie Dillard
Culture
People
Seven
Possesses
Scattered
Throughout
Take
Souls
According
Person
Greenland
Six
Tiny
Form
Body
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.
Ernest Hemingway
Man
Sometimes
Will
Degree
Immediately
Possesses
Writes
He
Clear
Quite
May
Forgotten
Endure
Fortunate
Eventually
Things
Alchemy
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
Felix Dennis
Success
Good
Sports
Win
Shoes
Own
Nothing
Good Ideas
Nike
Possesses
Athlete
Athletes
Facilitate
Like
Ideas
Sneakers
May
Them
Races
Who
Pair
The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
Gordon W. Allport
Truth
Truth Is
Lose
Way
Possesses
Pretend
Surest
Surest Way
Wholly
The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.
Heather Brooke
Future
Hacker
Community
Possesses
Small
Driving
Economies
Global
May
Skills
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller
Wisdom
Own
Sense
Our
Possesses
Physical
Physical Body
Give
No Sense
Make
Lack
Orders
Which
Inhabit
Body
Who
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
Max Stirner
Strength
Man
Ghosts
Possesses
Vanquished
Spirit
Spirits
Only
Lay
He
Also
Till
Aside
Really
Belief
It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.
Salvador Dali
Alone
Good
Creative
Good Taste
Power
First
Possesses
Always
Handicap
Taste
Any
Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.
Sophocles
Alone
Mind
Men
Seen
Others
Possesses
Above
He
Empty
Whoever
Thinks
Speech
Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
Abraham Verghese
Cancer
Word
Will
Society
Our
Possesses
Evolved
Embracing
Supernatural
Point
Counter
Idea
Powers
Surrounding
Modern
Where
Modern Society
Old-Fashioned
Nearly
Fatalism
As a player, you get to the stage where you realise that you are not 25 anymore - and can't play the way you used to. The intelligent players adapt - and Steven Gerrard has the ability to do that. He is an excellent passer of the ball, possesses an intelligent football brain, and has great vision.
Andrea Pirlo
Great
You
Vision
Stage
Way
Possesses
Ability
Excellent
Football
He
Steven
Ball
Brain
Intelligent
Get
Where
Anymore
Realise
Used
Play
Player
Players
Adapt
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