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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.


E. M. Forster


#believe #i #i do #in my opinion #internal

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.


Townsend Harris


#countries #desire #east #other #other countries

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?


Samuel Hopkins


#allow #any #destroy #enslave #estates

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.


Juvenal


#few #knowledge #pay #possess #price

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.


Meir Kahane


#every #every man #happiness #his #judges

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.


Stefan Kanfer


#away #cannot #explained #grief #life

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.


Julia Ward Howe


#brain #clearer #come #end #even

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.


Ralph Ellison


#because #bone #even #fiber #flesh

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.


David Hume


#alone #avidity #destructive #directly #friends

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.


Thomas Jefferson


#cases #equal #equal rights #law #majority






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