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Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. – Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. – Edna Woolman Chase	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate. – Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? – Frank Herbert, Dune	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. – Dag Hammarskjold	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. – Charles Talleyrand	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world. – Young	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. – George Washington	added by anonymous 13 years ago
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He does not possess wealth it possesses him. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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 belive in Art for Art's sake. – E. M. Forster	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it. – Austin Powers International Man of Mystery	added by anonymous 14 years ago
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. – Rene Descartes	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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