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«All my possessions for a moment of time.»
Author: Elizabeth I
| Keywords:
possessions
«In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom»
Author: Mary Ritter Beard
| About:
Achievement,
Being a Woman,
Civil rights,
History,
Possessions,
Women
| Keywords:
achievements, emphasis, martyrdom, possessions, quest, quest for, wrongs
«Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken»
Author: Orson Rega Card
| About:
Possessions,
Words
| Keywords:
possessions, prized, prizing, spoken
«Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
character, discovered, found, goodness, greatness, humility, in service, position, positioning, possessions, prestige, service
«Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Europeans, materialistic, possessions, uneasy, Versed
«Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
| Keywords:
Age to Age, come of age, in this, materialistic, outlived, outlives, outliving, possessed, possesses, possessions, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing, usefulness
«I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: / I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: / I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees: / I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: / I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
cattle, delights, fruits, gardens, gat, gathered, instruments, Jerusalem, Maidens, musical, musical instrument, musical instruments, orchards, planted, pools, possessions, provinces, singers, Sons of, therewith, treasure house, vineyards
«FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Finance
| Keywords:
accent, discoveries, finance, finances, Managing, possessions, pronunciation, revenues, syllable, syllables
«I shall always esteem it not much to live in a city where the laws do less than men, because that fatherland is desirable where possessions and friends can be securely enjoyed, not where they can be easily taken from you, and friends for few of thems»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Admiration
| Keywords:
desirable, enjoyed, fatherland, Fatherlands, Friends for, possessions, securely, taking possession
«Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
All My, external, grant, harmony, in harmony, in restraint, possessions, restraint, riches, rich person, self-restraint, wise to
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