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• Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."

  Lino Rulli

  Thinking, Guy, Guilt

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.

  James Madison

  Passion, Government, Democracies Have

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Henry Barton Dawson (1864). “The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Fœderal Convention, September 17, 1787. Reprinted from the Original Text. With an Historical Introduction and Notes”, p.60, New York : C. Scribner ; London : Sampson Low

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• Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Doubt, Might

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my lettered tunic. Along the edge of my tunic, both front and rear, are partitioned compartments which are hemmed up to serve as pockets. These hold all my possessions which consist of a comb, a folding toothbrush, a ball point pen, a map, some copies of my message and my mail.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Clothes, Blue, Long

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• I considered myself liberated long before it became the fashion. First I liberated myself from debilitating habits, and went on to free myself of combative, aggressive thoughts. I have also cast aside any unnecessary possessions. This, I feel, is true liberation.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Fashion, Long, Firsts

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.19, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• To the world I may seem very poor, walking penniless and wearing or carrying in my pockets my only material possessions, but I am really very rich in blessings which no amount of money could buy - health and happiness and inner peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Blessing, Inner Peace, Pockets

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• The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. For me this began with a discovery of the meaninglessness of possessions beyond my actual and immediate needs. As soon as I had brought myself down to need level, I began to feel a wonderful harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being, between spiritual and material well-being.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Discovery, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Just after I dedicated my life to service, I felt that I could no longer accept more than I need while others in the world have less than they need. This moved me to bring my life down to need level. I thought it would be difficult. I thought it would entail a great many hardships, but I was quite wrong. Instead of hardships, I found a wonderful sense of peace and joy, and a conviction that unnecessary possessions are only unnecessary burdens.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Joy, Would Be, Needs

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• The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them.

  L. Frank Baum

  War, Fall, Hands

  Saturday Pioneer editorial, December 20, 1890.

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• The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

  Maimonides

  Desire, Unnecessary Things, Difficulty

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.271, Courier Corporation

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• Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.

  Tracy McGrady

  Player, Games, Finals

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• Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last.

  Paul Pierce

  Basketball, Lasts, Treats

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• The fact is that those who do not see themselves but who see others, who fail to grasp of themselves but who grasp others, take possession of what others have but fail to possess themselves. they are attracted to what others enjoy but fail to find enjoyment in themselves.

  Zhuangzi

  Facts, Failing, Enjoy

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• The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied possession of Euclidean geometry that offers us the impression, or the illusion, that it has, that world, already been encompassed in a manageable intellectual structure. The lineaments of that structure are well known: as in the rest of life, something is given and something is gotten; but the logic behind those lineaments is apt to pass unnoticed, and it is the logic that controls the system.

  David Berlinski

  Curves, Rest Of Life, Numbers

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• The gospel assures you that your value is not dependent on your looks or material possessions.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Looks, Materials, Dependent

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• Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lost, Findings

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• My old trainer used to tell us not to blast, but to caress the ball whenever we took possession. If the ball were a woman... she would be spending all night with Berbatov.

  Ian Holloway

  Night, Would Be, Balls

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• I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else's car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me

  Iggy Pop

  Illegal Things, Car, Riding

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• I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit" book; and this for two reasons: What a child digs for is his own possession; what is poured into his ear, like the idle song of a pleasant singer, floats out as lightly as it came in, and is rarely assimilated. I do not mean to say that the lecture and the oral lesson are without their uses; but these uses are, to give impulse and to order knowledge; and not to convey knowledge.

  Charlotte Mason

  Song, Children, Book

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• Sadly, as with so much about history's heroes, it's the spotting of potential fame that's the difficulty, whether it's publishing their poems, hanging their paintings, or buying their old underwear. Think of the great men whose lives passed in penury and hacking coughs due to public unawareness that their littlest possession would end up at Sothebys or the basement at Fort Knox.

  Alan Coren

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Alan Coren (2008). “Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren”, p.118, Canongate Books

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• I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If you really want to write, writing has to take precedence over everything else, except for taking care of your loved ones. It has to be more important than any possession, more important than fame. We hear about just a few writers who get famous, but most of them don't. It's got to mean more than that.

  Herbert Gold

  Writing, Mean, Important

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• Don’t accumulate possessions; accumulate experiences!

  Mark Batterson

  Mark Batterson, Richard Foth, Susanna Foth Aughtmon (2015). “A Trip around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life into the Adventure of a Lifetime”, p.25, Baker Books

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• I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

  Emilio Pucci

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

  J.H. Wyman

  Pieces, Able, Messages

  Source: collider.com

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• Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.

  Saint Basil

  Treats, Resolve, Belonging

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