#posses

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The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.


Herbert Croly


#determined #fruitful #ideal #individual #life

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them.


Georges Cuvier


#anything #before #cannot #demonstrable #evident

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

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.


Hugh Jackman


#about #always #appreciation #gave #great

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


Stefan Kanfer


#away #cannot #explained #grief #life

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.


John Keats


#brood #could #death #hour #i

The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.


James Thurber


#artists #become #depth #humor #longer

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#also #defects #demand #enterprises #excel

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.


William H. Wharton


#could #ever #government #granted #had

Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.


Francis Wright


#faith #know #possess #reason #understand