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If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Barbara Bush
Problems
Thrive
Unlimited
Possessing
Weaknesses
Perceived
Rather
Instead
Dull
Than
Human
Human Beings
Capabilities
Then
Beings
Grow
Strengths
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
Dignity
Honors
Consist
Possessing
Does
Them
Deserving
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham
Men
Nothing
Possess
Possessing
Wrong
Riches
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
Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.
John James Audubon
Life
Family
Me
Happy
Grateful
Eyes
Affection
Numerous
Possessing
Abandoned
Members
Lift
Never
Share
Feel
Towards
Supreme
Make
Supreme Being
Am
Dear
Surrounded
Friends
Being
Who
Agreeable
Sufficient
Enjoying
Being sexy, to me, is possessing the full package: the brains, the drive, inner confidence, spiritual foundation, a positive attitude, proceeding through obstacles, making a positive contribution to the world, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Mya
Positive
Attitude
Spiritual
Me
Confidence
Positive Attitude
World
Drive
Healthy
Possessing
Sexy
Through
Lifestyle
Maintaining
Obstacles
Making
Healthy Lifestyle
Brains
Contribution
Being
Package
Full
Foundation
Inner
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
Man
Women
Natural
Glasses
Power
Looking
Possessing
Reflecting
Size
Centuries
Figure
Twice
Served
I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.
Clara Schumann
You
Happy
I Am
I Am Happy
Possessing
Horses
Am
Diamonds
Want
The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Relationship
Demanding
Looking
Looking Back
Living
Back
Possessing
Neither
Security
Lies
Hoping
Only
Accepting
Real
Nor
Expecting
Real Security
Owning
Might
Forward
Even
Now
Present
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
Otto von Bismarck
Worth
Christian
Other
Possessing
Seeking
Civilization
Than
Which
Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
Nature
Rights
Other
State
Possessing
Independent
Individuals
Like
Equal
Owing
Duties
Nations
Certain
Each
Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among a people possessing so small a share of virtue and public spirit? I recollect none, and this more than the British arms makes me fearful of final success, without a reform.
Patrick Henry
Success
Freedom
Me
You
People
Remember
Tyranny
Final
Virtue
Ruins
Possessing
Destroyed
Recollect
Spirit
Fearful
More
Small
Instance
Share
Arms
Without
Makes
None
Than
Reform
Any
Established
Where
Public
Among
British
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
Great
Genius
Will
Long
Power
Goodness
Danger
Possessing
Finest
Charm
Spoils
Conceit
Talent
Well
Real
Overlooked
Modesty
Much
Should
Using
Even
Satisfy
Consciousness
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man
Become
Possessing
One Thing
Could
How
His
Question
Die
Any
Being
The One Thing
Acquiring
Fullness
Thing
Last
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Clive Bell
Work
Art
Quality
Degree
Possessing
Worthless
Must
Some
No Work
Without
Altogether
Least
Exist
Cannot
Which
New artists, it seems to me, have to learn the mechanics of computing/programming and - possessing a vision unhumbled by technology - use them to disassemble/recreate the Web.
David Shields
Me
Technology
Vision
Possessing
Web
Seems
New
Learn
Artists
Them
Use
Mechanics
The long-standing, non-partisan and publicly-declared foreign policy commitment of the United States is clear. We will do whatever is required to prevent Iran from possessing nuclear weapons. Our nation has not ruled out any option that may be required to achieve this objective, including the use of military force.
Elijah Cummings
Commitment
Achieve
Will
Nation
Whatever
Military
Our
Ruled
States
Possessing
Out
Weapons
Objective
Prevent
Clear
Long-Standing
Force
Policy
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Iran
Option
Any
May
Required
Use
Military Force
Including
United
United States
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.
Emile Durkheim
Constitution
Society
State
Definite
Definitely
Possessing
Circumstances
Moral
Constantly
Disturbance
Mental
Only
Individual
Through
Taken
Maintain
Him
Himself
Equally
Causes
Surprise
His
Lacks
Organized
The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.
Eric Kandel
Thoughts
Experience
Emotions
Organ
Our
Complex
Immense
Possessing
Constructs
Computational
Brain
Controls
Sensory
Capability
Actions
Biological
Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?
Jimmy Chamberlin
Today
Music
Needs
Music Industry
Possessing
Record
Record Companies
Something
More
Consumer
Head
Industry
Around
Get
Any
Experiencing
Interested
Them
Less
Companies
Even
Things
Need
Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.
Jonathan Dee
Culture
Think
Those
Possessing
Characteristics
Charisma
City
Lies
Through
Volatile
Shared
Tourism
Primarily
True
Mass
New
Know
How
York
May
New York
New York City
Natives
Flattering
Them
Us
Certain
Who
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Jorge Luis Borges
Library
Not Knowing
Those
Guilty
Possessing
Entirety
He
Like
Knowing
His
Aware
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
Matthew Arnold
Love
Spiritual
Possessing
Worthy
Admiration
Proof
Excite
Outward
Condition
Greatness
Interest
It was a privilege to work with Ballantyne, an iconic brand possessing such a rich British heritage. Ballantyne has a great appreciation of style and craftsmanship which truly complements the Matthew Williamson brand.
Matthew Williamson
Work
Great
Appreciation
Style
Rich
Heritage
Possessing
Truly
Brand
Matthew
Privilege
Craftsmanship
Which
Iconic
British
Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.
Michael Moorcock
Work
You
Think
Possessing
Find
Some
Scenes
Tend
Write
Pictures
Like
Always
Comics
Dynamic
Earliest
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
Niger Innis
War
Freedom
Rights
Black
States
Penalties
Liberties
Possessing
Secure
Civil
Civil Rights
Blacks
Civil War
Restricted
Laws
Firearms
Along
Stiff
Were
Southern
Southern States
After
Central
Enforcement
Whites
Fought
Codes
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