Best Belonging Wisdom
338 Belonging quotes by 276 unique authors
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mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends…
— Edmund Burke
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The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
— Norbert Wiener
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New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United…
— James F. Cooper
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Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together…
— David Ricardo
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The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view,…
— Simon Greenleaf
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So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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While brother Joseph was referring to the provinces of God, I was led to reflect that there is no act, no principle, no power belonging…
— Brigham Young
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Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith…
— Luther Burbank
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Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire…
— Brené Brown
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The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free to…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten — it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling…
— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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We all construct worldviews that give us a sense of meaning. Mostly it is about belonging to a group and having a sense of identity…
— Carmen Lawrence
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One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these…
— Vladimir Lenin
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I'm always very proud of belonging to three minorities: gay, Jewish, white South African.
— Antony Sher
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The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea…
— John Dryden
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What we want is another sample of life, which is not on our tree of life at all. All life that we've studied so far…
— Paul Davies
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Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out…
— Phyllis George
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We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
— William Glasser
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I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind…
— Simon Cowell
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We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we…
— Aldo Leopold
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When I meet a new person, I am on the lookout for signs of what he or she is loyal to. It is a preliminary…
— Haniel Long
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At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to…
— Dolley Madison
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