#posses

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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#fantasy #nature #science-fiction #the-dispossessed #death

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


Billy Graham


#men #nothing #possess #possessing #riches

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.


Herman Gorter


#excellent #farmers #food #goods #land

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.


Dick Gregory


#loss #much #possession #riches #their

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.


George Grey


#chance #chief #concerned #consists #little

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#denies #fantasies #far #fill #flock

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.


Douglas Haig


#become #defending #good #infantry #lost

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.


Dag Hammarskjold


#away #demands #feat #life #only

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.


Paul Harris


#possession #religion #right

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.


Heinrich Heine


#death #elements #envy #every #hunger