#session

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#cares #enlargement #go #increase #multiply

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#called #claim #deserves #enlarge #helps

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#already #elegance #escaped #future #just

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#fact #obsession #other #parts #sex

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. ↗

— Jim Dine

#being #funny #i #i do #intensity

All my possessions for a moment of time. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#possessions #time

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #appropriation #child #comes #desire

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. ↗

— John Locke

#error #him #man #one thing #possession

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

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