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Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. ↗

— George Washington

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I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. ↗

— George Washington

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. ↗

— Simone Weil

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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

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Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. ↗

— Billy Graham

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