#posses

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#end #enjoyment #enriched #every #good

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#been #being #conquest #constantly #emotional

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#been #commission #contrary #could #crime

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#begging #beneath #distinctive #does #glory

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#culture #having #heavy #into #paid

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#civilization #other #possessing #seeking #than

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods. ↗

— Paul Dirac

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