#posse

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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


#dislodge #easier #enemy #experience #got

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


#consider #enough #enviable #firmness #honest

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.


Simone Weil


#does #first #force #intoxicates #man

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


Simone Weil


#over #possess #power

I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!


Olivia Williams


#box #box office #box-office #called #could

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.


Woodrow Wilson


#conceive #day #i #i do #into

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.


John Wooden


#eyes #great #knows #lord #material

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.


Carter G. Woodson


#different #each #evidence #gifts #indicates

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


#figure #glasses #looking #man #natural

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


#bodily #character #conscious #having #large