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• We are not the sum of our possessions. — George H. W. Bush
• Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. — Samuel Johnson
• Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. — Rabindranath Tagore
• We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. — Anna Brackett
• The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are. — Charles Caldwell Ryrie
• Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions. — Unknown Author
• We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too… — George Carlin
• Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. — Oliver Goldsmith
• Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal. — Isocrates
• Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse… — Pope Benedict XVI
• As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military… — Edward Gibbon
• A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon

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