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

  Bill Nelson

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  Tags in Time, Possessions

• The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

  Georges Rouault

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  Tags in World, Spiritual, Possessions

• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

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  Tags in Personal, Possessions, Liberty

• Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

  George Santayana

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• We are not the sum of our possessions.

  George H. W. Bush

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  Tags in Ourselves, Possessions

• Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

  Thomas Clarkson

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• My most cherished possessions are my grandma’s letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

  Sandra Lee

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  Tags in Possessions, Letters

• In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

  Ted Koppel

  Topics in Politics

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• All my possessions for a moment of time.

  Elizabeth I

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• A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

  Epicurus

  Topics in Life

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• Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Unnecessary, Possessions, Simplicity, Freedom

• The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

  Charles Babbage

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  Tags in Possessions, Source, Indifferent, Fertile, Wealth

• Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

  Thomas Mann

  Tags in Bourgeoisie, Possessions

• No man can lose what he never had.

  Izaak Walton

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• Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately.

  John Updike

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• I think nobody owns the land until their dead are in it.

  Joan Didion

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• Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.

  Mae West

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• Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.

  Bill Zimmerman

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