#possessions

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children. ↗

— Bill Nelson

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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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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. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

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The possessions of the rich are stolen property. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Already, in the last few decades, you have realized the utter futility of of encumbering yourselves with superfluous possessions that have no useful virtue, but which, for various sentimental reasons, you continue to hoard, thus lessening your life's efficiency by using for it time and attention that should have been applied to the practical work of life's accomplishments. (The Miracle of the Lily - 1928) ↗

— Clare Winger Harris

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Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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We are not the sum of our possessions. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

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Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. ↗

— Isocrates

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