| "Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces." »Joseph T. Chew |
| "Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking." »Tim McMahon |
| "The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." »Margot Fonteyn |
| "Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner |
| "Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." »Unknown |
| "Freedom is a possession of inestimable value." »Cicero |
| "Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." »Euripides |
| "Every increased possession loads us with new weariness." »John Ruskin |
| "possession is eleven points in the law." »Colley Cibber |
| "Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession." »Mark Twain |
| "I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr. |
| "Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor." »Alexander Smith |
| "An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." »Pliny the Younger |
| "The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them." »Zachariah Johnson |
| "A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one." »Simonides |
| "I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius |
| "Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." »Epicurus |
| "Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." »Andr Gide |
| "The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world." »Max Born |
| "The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal." »Sallust |
| "We are certainly getting ahead if I am Moses, then you are Joshua and will take possession of the promised land of psychiatry, which I shall only be able to glimpse from afar." »Sigmund Freud |
| "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession." »Sallust |
| "The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey |
| "...for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion." »Alexander Hamilton |
| "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst." »Thomas Hardy |
| "Necessity is the mother of taking chances." »Mark Twain |
| "The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." »Shakti Gawain |
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