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Page 183: “With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to posess those decisive marks of opulance which nobody can posess but themselves.”
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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Control orders can restrict where suspects are allowed to go, items they are not allowed to posess, and who they are allowed to see or communicate with.
Britain's anti-terror control orders condemned as 'trademark of despots' 2011
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Here's my take on it: you can't legally posess a gun in prison -- the serious violent felons should be let out of prison for funerals only -- their own funerals!
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Page 183: “With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to posess those decisive marks of opulance which nobody can posess but themselves.”
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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These young buds, stewed, seemed to posess an encouraging nutrition.
Chapter VIII 2010
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Here's my take on it: you can't legally posess a gun in prison -- the serious violent felons should be let out of prison for funerals only -- their own funerals!
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And the next thing you know, your people are living on reservations that are only few percentages of all the lands their tribes used to posess.
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Possessing great material wealth: Making $250k may or may not indicate you posess great material wealth.
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I have succeeded beyond the former estimate of my own self approving vanity, and the proof that I posess that latter article, is my telling you so.
Letter 217 2009
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The other choices for Supreme Court Justice that Obama has, are all excellent and posess Constitutional integrity that far exceeds what Roberts, Scalia, and all the other Republican Corporate stooges currently in the Supreme Court have demonstrated.
Sources: Obama expected to make high court pick by early May 2010
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