Possessions

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  • If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
        Anne Bradstreet   Best?
  • The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
        Jay Leno   Best?
  • Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
        John Russell   Best?
  • Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
        Michael McClary   Best?
  • Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
        Ted Morgan   Best?
  • It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
        Harry S. Truman   Best?
  • Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
        Pat Paulsen   Best?
  • Truth is a pathless land.
        Krishnamurti   Best?
  • If you know how rich you are then you are not rich. But us, we do not know the vastness of our wealth. That's how rich we are.
        Imelda Marcos   Best?
  • The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.
        Adam Smith   Best?
  • All true wealth is biological.
        Lois McMaster Bujold   Best?
  • Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
        Michael Crichton   Best?
  • L'etat c'est moi (I am the State)
        King Louis XIV of France   Best?
  • Diplomacy: lying in state.
        Oliver Hereford   Best?
  • Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
  • A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
        Alexander Hamilton   Best?
  • A functioning police state needs no police.
        William S. Burroughs   Best?
  • You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
        Dean Martin   Best?
  • The real giants have been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
        Bill Bernbach   Best?
  • The kingdom of God or nothing.
        John Taylor   Best?
  • Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.
        Judge Learned Hand   Best?
  • We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.
        Alexander Solzhenitsyn   Best?
  • Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.
        Joseph Stalin   Best?
  • The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
        Natalie Goldberg   Best?
  • Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
        Jose Ortega y Gasset   Best?
  • We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
        Francis J. Braceland   Best?
  • Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
        John Stuart Mill   Best?
  • You look after your empire; I'll look after myself.
        Princess Margaret   Best?
  • To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
        E. Kim Nebeuts   Best?
  • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
        Julie Morgenstern   Best?
  • If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish.
        Yeghishe   Best?
  • The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
        Baruch Spinoza   Best?
  • America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
        Lyndon B. Johnson   Best?
  • America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
        John Quincy Adams   Best?

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