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Originally, God was to save individual mind from despair if not disaster, love was an attempt by one mind to possess another mind and justice was a mind's concern for all other minds. In case of the first, mind is too weak and fearful to understand itself. In the second, the nature cripples the reason and over powers human mind! In the third situation, the reason is more evolved and makes the human mind to stand on its own and does what best is possible with respect to other minds! – Thiruman Archunan	added by Thiruman Archunan 9 years ago
But in many cases, few companies possess such capabilities on their own. – Akitomo Inagaki	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We're still getting reports of incidents coming in today, but we are quite encouraged by this campaign. It shows the support of the Australian public and how much of a big heart they possess. – Samier Dandan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
NATO does not possess or NATO doesn’t sell military equipment, that is something the nations are doing or not doing. – Jens Stoltenberg	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
North Atlantic Treaty Organization does not possess or North Atlantic Treaty Organization does n’t sell military equipment, that is something the nations are doing or not doing. – Jens Stoltenberg	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter. – Paul Klee	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls. – Oswald Chambers	added by anonymous 9 years ago
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule. – William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne	added by anonymous 9 years ago
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. – Billy Graham	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. – Teresa of Ávila	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. – Francis of Assisi	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. – Salman Rushdie	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls. – Oswald Chambers	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. – Stephen Vizinczey	added by anonymous 10 years ago
That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. – Robert Burns	added by anonymous 10 years ago
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. – Charles Kingsley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
We might hypothetically possess ourselves of every technological resource on the North American continent, but as long as our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be revolutionary but not transformative. – Adrienne Rich	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man. – Stendhal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do -- namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions. – Eleanor Roosevelt	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To possess taste, one must have some soul. – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. – G. K. Chesterton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy. He who knows these three things, knows how to cultivate his own character. – Confucius	added by anonymous 10 years ago

Originally, God was to save individual mind from despair if not disaster, love was an attempt by one mind to possess another mind and justice was a mind's concern for all other minds. In case of the first, mind is too weak and fearful to understand itself. In the second, the nature cripples the reason and over powers human mind! In the third situation, the reason is more evolved and makes the human mind to stand on its own and does what best is possible with respect to other minds!

– Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

But in many cases, few companies possess such capabilities on their own.

– Akitomo Inagaki

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We're still getting reports of incidents coming in today, but we are quite encouraged by this campaign. It shows the support of the Australian public and how much of a big heart they possess.

– Samier Dandan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

NATO does not possess or NATO doesn’t sell military equipment, that is something the nations are doing or not doing.

– Jens Stoltenberg

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

North Atlantic Treaty Organization does not possess or North Atlantic Treaty Organization does n’t sell military equipment, that is something the nations are doing or not doing.

– Jens Stoltenberg

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

– Paul Klee

added by anonymous
9 years ago

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

– Oswald Chambers

added by anonymous
9 years ago

You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

– William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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

– Billy Graham

added by anonymous
9 years ago

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

– Teresa of Ávila

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

– Francis of Assisi