#session

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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You know, to preserve our job-friendly climate the Texas legislature didn't raise taxes this last legislative session while balancing their budget and maintaining their reserves - and might I add that our budget leaves $6 billion dollars in a rainy day fund? ↗

— Rick Perry

#balancing #billion #budget #climate #day

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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I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#been #great #i #lace #make

The possessions of the rich are stolen property. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#duty #every #i #i believe #i believe that

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#his #important #man #most #over

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ↗

— Will Rogers

#baby #come #congress #country #feel

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress. ↗

— Will Rogers

#funny #funny things #half #i #life

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

#material-possessions #materialism #possessions #uselessness #wasted-time