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THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them. ↗

— Richard Henry Lee

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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. ↗

— George Meredith

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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

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Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty! ↗

— James Monroe

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For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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The greatest possession is self-possession. ↗

— Ethel Watts Mumford

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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

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