Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949 he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.
In politics merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised like a target to a position to be fired at.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power it is called a democracy.
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness vigor and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
From 1836 down to last year there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace or possessing increased security against war.
Oh how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then and only then can you begin to find inner peace.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature whether sacred or profane out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
The ground we walk on the plants and creatures the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy bound together by cosmic harmony.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.