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As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.
What we enjoy, not what we possess, is ours, and in labouring for the possession of many things, we lose the power to enjoy the best.
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Everyone wants to play like Spurs. We want to play attractive football, get the ball forward, and create chances with good possession.
Simplicity is the only thing that sufficiently reorients our lives so that possessions can be genuinely enjoyed without destroying us.
Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.
When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.
This is the most intimate relationship between literature and its readers: they treat the text as a part of themselves, as a possession.
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
The possession of power over others is inherently destructive both to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.
I want to help my teammates, even if I'm a striker, because it's important to win back possession. But scoring is something incomparable.
I like to have the ball, to have possession and to play passes, to create chances for my team-mates. I think that is what makes me strong.
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
My wealth is reflected in the price of Severstal, and the number of shares I have in my possession doesn't have any impact on the company.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
My disenchantment? Oh no, my dear, there are no disenchantments, merely progressions and styles of possession. To exist is to be spellbound.
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.
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet.
You have to stay disciplined from the start of the game to the end of the game, from the start of the possession to the end of the possession.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
Multiple personality disorder and possession are not necessarily mutually incompatible disorders. There's some evidence that you can have both.
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
The purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter. The mission of deterrence to make all parties in possession of nuclear weapons never, ever use them.
It is vital to maintain possession and to win it back as soon as possible, because if we win it high up, then the opposition has to run 70 metres.
My Helmut Lang leather pants are my most treasured possession - I've worn them almost every day for two years, and they look good with everything.
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
When you master all defensive and offensive aspects of the game and always enjoy the majority of possession, you're sitting in pole position to win.
Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
When you're 2-0 up and you lose possession, you sprint back. So much of it is down to confidence - it's really down to really wanting to make that run.
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
We're all in this together, and we all have to make an investment in our most precious possession and in the foundation of our future: our young people.
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.
If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest
As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.