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Everyone looked at them, she looked like a possessed doll .?.?. a scene of crazy sensuality. – Rino Barillari	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
They are two young individuals of Egyptian origin who were preparing an attack, they possessed instructions on how to build ricin-based poisons. – Interior Minister Gerard Collomb	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Modigliani creates a new kind of nude for the modern era, typically there's been a distance between the viewer of a nude and the way that the nude is represented. Here Modigliani puts them on a level. If you look at her gaze, the way she is meeting yours, she is very erotic, but she's very confident, she's very self-possessed in her sexuality, and that's something incredibly new. – Simon Shaw	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Apparently, Neanderthals possessed a good knowledge of medicinal plants and their various anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties..., the use of antibiotics would be very surprising, as this is more than 40,000 years before we developed penicillin. – Alan Cooper	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Humans are the only race who are continuously either possessed by or obsessed for various energies! – Ramana Pemmaraju	added by Ramana Pemmaraju 7 years ago
My greatest personal qualities I possessed during that time were my availability and eagerness to learn, i used to gobble up hours from other workers that had other plans or simply did not want to work. – John Gulledge	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Our science has known for decades that upright walking, bipedalism, preceded brain enlargement over the course of human evolution. But never before has it been so obvious. Homo naledi possessed a strikingly modern human-like foot, even though its brain was only about one-third the size of our brains today. – Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I have never possessed or traded on material, nonpublic information obtained through illicit or unlawful means, nor have I ever directed anyone working for me to obtain or to trade on such information. – David Amaryan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The best way to answer all questions related to the attacks in Benghazi continues to be having access to the full public record, not a 'record' controlled, possessed and screened exclusively by Secretary Clinton's personal lawyers. – Trey Gowdy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The guiding principle was pair-bonding with a man and to be even more specific, to make sure that I possessed a proper vessel for an erect penis, the end goal wasn't that I would be a sexually satisfied woman, or a person who was curious about other forms of sexuality. ... Jim Ambrose personal sexual pleasure wasn't taken into account. – Jim Ambrose	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Though [Theophanu] was of the weak sex she possessed moderation, trustworthiness, and good manners. In this way she protected with male vigilance the royal power for her son, friendly with all those who were honest, but with terrifying superiority against rebels. – Thietmar of Merseburg	added by anonymous 9 years ago
War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations. – Walter Bagehot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. – Khalil Gibran	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with this as the foremost object ideas of freedom and self-reliance and service to the community were obscured to the point of disappearing. Athens was more and more looked on as a co-operative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share. Athens had reached the point of rejecting independence, and the freedom she now wanted was freedom from responsibility. There could be only one result. If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms. – Edith Hamilton	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past. – Octavio Paz	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing. – E. B. White	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected. – Ulysses S. Grant	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it. – Addison	added by anonymous 12 years ago
In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Two persons die remorseful: he who possessed and enjoyed not, and he who knew but did not practise. – Saadi Shirazi	added by anonymous 12 years ago
If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before. – The Talmud	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I've seen a disciplined man who possessed nought, and I've seen a wealthy man who is devoid of understanding. – lot chakonza	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Everyone looked at them, she looked like a possessed doll .?.?. a scene of crazy sensuality.

– Rino Barillari

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

They are two young individuals of Egyptian origin who were preparing an attack, they possessed instructions on how to build ricin-based poisons.

– Interior Minister Gerard Collomb

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Modigliani creates a new kind of nude for the modern era, typically there's been a distance between the viewer of a nude and the way that the nude is represented. Here Modigliani puts them on a level. If you look at her gaze, the way she is meeting yours, she is very erotic, but she's very confident, she's very self-possessed in her sexuality, and that's something incredibly new.

– Simon Shaw

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Apparently, Neanderthals possessed a good knowledge of medicinal plants and their various anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties..., the use of antibiotics would be very surprising, as this is more than 40,000 years before we developed penicillin.

– Alan Cooper

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Humans are the only race who are continuously either possessed by or obsessed for various energies!

– Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
7 years ago

My greatest personal qualities I possessed during that time were my availability and eagerness to learn, i used to gobble up hours from other workers that had other plans or simply did not want to work.

– John Gulledge

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Our science has known for decades that upright walking, bipedalism, preceded brain enlargement over the course of human evolution. But never before has it been so obvious. Homo naledi possessed a strikingly modern human-like foot, even though its brain was only about one-third the size of our brains today.

– Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have never possessed or traded on material, nonpublic information obtained through illicit or unlawful means, nor have I ever directed anyone working for me to obtain or to trade on such information.

– David Amaryan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The best way to answer all questions related to the attacks in Benghazi continues to be having access to the full public record, not a 'record' controlled, possessed and screened exclusively by Secretary Clinton's personal lawyers.

– Trey Gowdy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The guiding principle was pair-bonding with a man and to be even more specific, to make sure that I possessed a proper vessel for an erect penis, the end goal wasn't that I would be a sexually satisfied woman, or a person who was curious about other forms of sexuality. ... Jim Ambrose personal sexual pleasure wasn't taken into account.

– Jim Ambrose

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Though [Theophanu] was of the weak sex she possessed moderation, trustworthiness, and good manners. In this way she protected with male vigilance the royal power for her son, friendly with all those who were honest, but with terrifying superiority against rebels.

– Thietmar of Merseburg

added by anonymous
9 years ago

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.

– Walter Bagehot