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The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
Thomas Malthus

Power, Means, Greatly

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.
John Wycliffe

God, Power, Knowledge

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.
Joyce Maynard

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
Johannes Tauler

Nature, God, Everything

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael

Creative, Genius, Individual

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Truth, Forward, Effort

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.
Paul Cellucci

Around, State, President

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.
Balthus

Anyone, Left, Painting

On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
Patrick J. Kennedy

Good, Great, Strength

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
Hans Kung

Today, Spiritual, Humanity

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
Hans Kung

Age, Religion, Sex

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
Georges Rouault

Character, Human, Same

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.
Josiah Royce

Life, God, True

Europe has united, China is growing speedily and Russia possesses immense power in terms of fuel resources. The US administration cannot do anything about it.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Power, Cannot, Growing

There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
Lactantius

Understand, Same, Energy

For the Gulf States, perhaps no forage crop of which the available seed supply is relatively abundant exceeds the velvet bean in potential value. This legume possesses also the ability to make a crop when planted relatively late.
David F. Houston

Value, Late, Ability

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
Robert D. Kaplan

Different, Days, United

Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case, the choice is easy.
Charles Krauthammer

Life, Time, Bad

For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
Yves Klein

Character, Soul, Same

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Charles Edward Montague

Lie, Left, Taken

In order for our country and economy to get on the right track again, we need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field possesses his lifetime of success in both the private sector and as a governor.
Timothy Griffin

Success, Change, Real

Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar.
Channing Pollock

The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
Corliss Lamont

Creative, Present, However

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Fischer

Mind, Become, Chance

Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
Olympia Snowe

Respect, Judge, Later

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.
Gail Godwin

Children, Race, Magically

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
Isaac Stern

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.
James Jeans

Life, Universe, Exists

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley

Talent, Genius, Possess

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
Lowell Thomas

Speak, Ability, Credit

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