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Letter "P" » possessors
«For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time»
Author: George Sutherland
| About:
Liberty,
Memory
| Keywords:
carved, epitaph, epitaphs, possessors, saddest, saving, stretch, stretch forth, vanished
«In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, intensely and rigidly phallic. A man's identity is located in his conception of himself as the possessor of a phallus; a man's worth is located in his pride in phallic identity. The main characteristic of phallic identity is that worth is entirely contingent on the possession of a phallus. Since men have no other criteria for worth, no other notion of identity, those who do not have phalluses are not recognized as fully human.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
| Keywords:
aggression, characteristic, conception, contingent, contingent on, criteria, identity, intensely, locate, located, locates, locating, masculinity, norm, norms, notion, phallic, phallus, possessor, possessors, recognized, rigidly, sexuality
«Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
administer, administering, administers, bound, community, possessor, possessors, sacred, surplus, surpluses
«In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
fired, merit, position, possessor, possessors, raised, rewarded, target
«Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Honesty
| Keywords:
possessor, possessors, profitable, under control
«Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
imparts, possessor, possessors
«Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, / And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.»
«Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness»
«Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.»
«Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
allusion, manageable, moderate, possessors, serviceable, stray
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