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Births

• 1975 - Hugh Dancy
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• 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 believe in Art for Art’s sake.

  E. M. Forster

  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Believe, Sake, Objects, Material, Internal, Possess, Why, Only, Opinion, Though, Universe, Order, Matters

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  To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

   

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Topics in Belief, Knowledge

  Tags in Possess, Entirely

• A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

  Bert Lance

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual, Possess

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  A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

   

  George Ivanovich Gurdjieff

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Possess

• But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I’ve never quite understood.

  Ted Kotcheff

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understood, Possess

• The problem is not that America does not have energy. The problem is that our government – alone among the governments of the world – will not allow its own people to recover the energy that they possess.

  Jim Talent

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possess, Energy

• We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Our, Qualities, Excel, Enterprises, Defects, Also, Possess, Use, Which, Those, Succeed, Make, Demand

• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Possess, Happens, Time, Really, Miracle

• A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I’ve been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

  Henri Matisse

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Now, Generate, Expressing, Possess, Light, Through, Time, Myself, Been, Must, Rather, Real, Long, Conscious

• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possess, Time, More, Know

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Topics in Ability, Effort

  Tags in Pass, Possess, Restless, Situation, Therefore, Unproductive, Unseemly, Burning, Artistic, Urge, Write, Paint, Sweet, Eat, True, Feeling, Few, Very, Simply, Will, Both, Something, Irritate, Making

• Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

  Rod Serling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possess, Happens, People, Talent

• Rather than be asked to abandon one’s own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possess, American, Expected

• Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Topics in Confidence, God

  Tags in Possess, Great, Peace, Anxiety

• One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Possess, Hope

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possess, Firmness, Character

• The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

  William Godwin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Possess, Forbearance, Kinds

• I don’t think anyone has a right to possess anything he doesn’t love – art or anything else.

  William Baldwin

  Tags in Possess

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Burning, Possess

• The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Possess, Highest, Already