He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
Joan Didion
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce
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The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The process of facing and selecting our possessions can be quite painful. It forces us to confront our imperfections and inadequacies and the foolish choices we made in the past.
Marie Kondo
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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
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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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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
Hamish Bowles
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For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.
John Burnside
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I'm currently shooting 'Ava's Possessions,' which is a really fun movie about a woman who gets possessed by a demon. I call it 'Memento' meets 'The Exorcist.'
Alysia Reiner
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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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When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.
Morrie Schwartz
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All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I
TimeMomentPossessions
We are not the sum of our possessions.
George H. W. Bush
PossessionsOurSum
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
Gary Shteyngart
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And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
Melina Mercouri
PossessionsMustGreeceCourseMost
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting Bull
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I go through life accumulating possessions... I've always done it... and then, every once in a while, a sort of tidal wave comes along and washes them all away.
Preston Sturges
LifeWaveGoDonePossessionsAlong
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
Mort Sahl
FeelDeservePossessionsEverything
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
David Hume
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Even the poorest in Israel are looked upon as freemen who have lost their possessions, for they are the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Akiva ben Joseph
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I don't like possessions.
Daniel Barenboim
PossessionsLike
In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner
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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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