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Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."

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"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time."

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"Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them."

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"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."

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"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."

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"It never felt real to me. I never felt I had complete ownership over Bond. Because you'd have these stupid one-liners - which I loathed - and I always felt phony doing them."

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"As long as you are the owner ('I am Chandubhai and all this is mine'), the worldly life remains. When does the ownership go away? When the wrong belief goes away."

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"I' have not had to borrow or beg for years. This world is indeed all yours. If you know how to 'see', if you know how to view the world, if you know how to understand the world, then the world is truly all yours. You are truly the Owner."

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Amber Hurdle

"Instead of exchanging your life for some coins and some pennies, you could actually take charge of your life right now. You can run away to take control of your time right now."

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"One creates ownership and then does egoism towards it, that is why suffering arises. No one is a boss/owner of anyone. Whose things and whose goods? However many fishes one catches from the sea, they are his. After he catches them, he gives rise to its ownership, he creates a liability for it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Possession they say is eleven points of the law."

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