Mahatma Gandhi

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Indian Leader

Christopher Columbus

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

Italian Explorer

Epicurus

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Greek Philosopher

Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

British Writer

John Locke

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

English Philosopher

Sophocles

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Greek Poet

James Baldwin

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

American Novelist

Orson Bean

I don't spend my life making money to spend tomorrow, or to acquire possessions.

American Actor

Pearl S. Buck

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Samuel Smiles

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.

Scottish Author

Used for objects that are not just owned, but also have personal or emotional value.

Personal attachment

Often implies that one can prove ownership through documents or receipts.

Ownership proof

Can suggest care or custody of items, not just ownership.

Custody implication

Used in sports to indicate brief control of the ball or object in play.

Temporary control

Highlights strategy in games, not just the fact of having the ball.

Tactical concept

A possession in this context is often about legal and political control.

Political status

This term can be sensitive, as it refers to a history of colonization.

Historical usage

Possession in a legal context often implies potential criminal charges.

Legal consequences

Proof of possession can determine legal outcomes.

Evidence importance

Refers to the belief in being controlled by a non-human entity.

Supernatural belief

Possession is commonly associated with the practice of exorcism.

Exorcism context

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 At best, he thought, it had to have been a hallucination -- a trick of the eye or the ear, perhaps, or his own mind working against him. At worst, possession -- that he'd been seized by an evil jinn, a spirit out to deceive him, even to crush the life out of him.

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 to mark contraction, to mark the plural of single letters. Most of the time, if you see an apostrophe hovering helpfully near a word, it's trying to mark possession or contraction. First, let's look at how the apostrophe marks possession.

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 instinct to protect chicks so much so that birds that have not managed to breed will try to take possession of a stray or abandoned chick but this fostering never succeeds because the adult has no partner to help in rearing the waif

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 and she said to me old photographs and food then I decided to look at this idea and take it a lot further and I started to look at how you could carry your possessions with you much more efficiently so I looked at how you can

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 their brains showed more activity in a region that usually flickers into life whenever we think about ourselves. Another reason we're so fond of our possessions is that from a young age we believe they have a unique essence.

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 His life, he thought, was lacking luster; what he needed was more gold. The god sent the power to turn anything the king touched to gold surging through Midas. Ecstatic, he turned to his possessions.

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 in the wild his mother would tip him out of the pouch and encourage him to climb and explore the trees exercise over he finally gets his prized possession back

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