Synonyms for possessing
pos·sess·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "possessing":

   possession, owning, possess

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1. Aristotle:

   Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

2. George Mason:

   All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.

3. Vida D. Scudder:

   Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

4. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps:

   What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

5. Eugene Delacroix:

   What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.