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"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
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"The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled." »Andrew Carnegie
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"Your most precious possession is not your financial assets. Your most precious possession is the people you have working there, and what they carry around in their heads, and their ability to work together." »Robert Reich
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"Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking." »Tim McMahon
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"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
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"George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise." »Al Gore - during 1992 Vice Presidential debate
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"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
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"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." »Unknown
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"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value." »Cicero
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"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." »Euripides
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"possession is eleven points in the law." »Colley Cibber
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"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession." »Mark Twain
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"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness." »John Ruskin
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"Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived." »Jonathan Swift
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"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it." »Mark Twain, Following the Equator
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"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one." »Simonides
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"Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor." »Alexander Smith
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"I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty." »John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.
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"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty." »John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." »Pliny the Younger
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"The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them." »Zachariah Johnson
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"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
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"Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." »Epicurus
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"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." »Andr Gide
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"Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others." »Sir Francis Bacon
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"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, The Confucian Analects
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"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
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." »Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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