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• The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.

  René Descartes

  Writing, Discovery, Rainbow

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• ¿Quieres saber cuál es la mayor ilusión sobre el éxito? Que es como un pináculo que hay que escalar, una cosa que hay que poseer o un resultado estático que hay que conseguir. Si quieres tener éxito, si quieres lograr todos tus resultados, tienes que pensar en el éxito como un proceso, una forma de vida, un hábito mental, una estrategia para la vida.

  Tony Robbins

  Éxito, Pensamiento, Mente

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• El mundo ya lo ha hecho: ha poseído al Congo, lo ha saqueado, lo ha dominado y le ha robado su agencia y su ocupación. El amor es otra cosa, algo ascendente y contagioso y sorprendente. No es consciente de sí mismo. No lleva la cuenta. No es algo por lo que uno firma. Es infinito, generoso y envolvente. Está en los tambores, en las voces, en los cuerpos de los heridos que, de repente, se sienten completos gracias a la música, gracias a los demás, gracias a la danza.

  Eve Ensler

  Amor, Agencia, Voz

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• Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Power, Growth

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.461, Vintage

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• The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Self

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.378, Best Books on

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• ... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

  Plutarch

  Math, Oil, Fire

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• Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

  David O. McKay

  Desire, Infinite, Irresistible

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• El poeta domina su fantasía, mientras que es precisamente la marca del neurótico el estar poseído por su fantasía.

  Lionel Trilling

  Fantasy, Poet, Mark

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.45, New York Review of Books

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• Tendrán tiempo suficiente, en esos eones interminables, para intentar todas las cosas, y para reunir todo el conocimiento... ningún Dios imaginado por nuestras mentes ha poseído jamás los poderes que ellos dominarán... Pero por todo eso, pueden envidiarnos, disfrutando del resplandor de la Creación; porque nosotros conocimos el Universo cuando era joven.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Envidia, Mente, Mayo

  "Perfiles del futuro: Una investigación sobre los límites de lo posible". Libro de Arthur C. Clarke, 1962.

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• Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means from somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go another. If you give a loaf to a pauper you cannot give the same loaf to a laborer. Now this other man who would have got it but for the charitable sentiment which bestowed it on a worthless member of society is the Forgotten Man.

  William Graham Sumner

  Media, Hombres, Ideas

  William Graham Sumner (1971). “Sumner today: selected essays of William Graham Sumner, with comments by American leaders”

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• It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fuerte, Pasión, Hombres

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.249, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!

  Robert Evans

  Mother, Reflection, Inner Beauty

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• The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it, possess it no longer: such are the petrefactions.

  Torbern Bergman

  Substance, Earth, Kingdoms

  William Withering, Torbern Bergman (1822). “The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering: to which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character, and writings”, p.9

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• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  George Meredith

  Duty, Felicity, Possession

  'The Egoist' (1879) ch. 14

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• Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Character, Artist, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1940). “Characters of the Reformation”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• Hay hombres que están poseídos por un impulso tan fuerte de hacer algo en particular que no pueden evitarlo, tienen que hacerlo. Están dispuestos a sacrificarlo todo para satisfacer su anhelo.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Strong, Writing, Sacrifice

  "El filo de la navaja". Libro de W. Somerset Maugham, 1944.

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• The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Adventure, Creative, Joy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.154, Routledge

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• ...congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

  Elizabeth Gould Davis

  Men, Two, Killers

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• If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.

  Gilbert Harding

  Voice, Female, Interviews

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• We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Able, Renounce, Possession

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). "Lo mejor de Sydney J. Harris"

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• A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince

  Edward Gibbon

  Freedom, Balance, Arms

  Edward Gibbon (1787). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.78

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• Acabemos con la idea de que la religión se limita a mezquinas piedades y pequeñas limitaciones. Con demasiada frecuencia, las personas que han poseído estas piedades han causado grandes males.

  A. Powell Davies

  People, Evil, Religion

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• Por necesidad selectiva, el hombre es un agente. Es, en su propia concepción, un centro de actividad impulsiva que se despliega: "actividad teleológica". Es un agente que busca en cada acto la realización de un fin concreto, objetivo e impersonal. A fuerza de ser tal agente, posee un gusto por el trabajo eficaz y un disgusto por el esfuerzo inútil.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Hombres, Esfuerzo, Agentes

  Thorstein Veblen (2016). "THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: La teoría de la clase ociosa, La teoría de la empresa comercial, La enseñanza superior en América, Panem et Circenses, Los intereses creados y el hombre común, El uso del crédito de préstamo en los negocios...", p.16, e-artnow

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• Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it's there to be beheld. … It's there for your pleasure.

  Diana Vreeland

  Belleza, Hermosa, Flor

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• I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Beautiful, Hate, Eye

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