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Tag: ownership, possession

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one’s self?

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Marie Elizabeth Kane

I feel when people say ‘bigger and better’ they should say ‘bigger and badder’.

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People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

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The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.

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Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

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Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

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Persian Proverb

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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You got a harem of seventy girls you don’t get to know any of them very well.

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Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely and nobly.

ownership, possession