#posses

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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.


Shmuel Y. Agnon


#been #burned #gave #god #had

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.


Carl D. Anderson


#both #charge #counting #electric #great

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#every man #friends #goats #how #man

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.


Barbara de Angelis


#any #cannot #could #enough #force

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.


Saint Teresa of Avila


#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.


Charles Babbage


#certain #conferred #degree #holds #knowledge

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.


Fredrik Bajer


#example #for example #idea #immediately #indeed

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.


Thomas Babington Macaulay


#highest #possess #power #proof #virtue

Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.


Geoffrey Beene


#belonging #born #clothes #form #into

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.


Eric Hoffer


#common #everyday #indifferent #likely #only