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"How many things can I do without?"
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"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
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"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
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"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
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"Progress is discovering what you can do without."
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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
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"I'd begun at the soundless place where California touches Mexico with five Gatorade bottles full of water and eleven pounds of gear and lots of candy. My backpack was tiny, no bigger than a schoolgirl's knapsack. Everything I carried was everything I had."
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"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."
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"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
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"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."
Courage

"The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone."
Justice

"I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."
Power

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
Life

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
Friendship

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it."
Philosophy

"I only know that I know nothing."
Knowledge

"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."
Education

"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."
Humility

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."
Learning
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