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"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
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"In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio."
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"Other's power, other's enjoyments, other's space, people have become the owners of that which does not belong to one's self. If they become the owners of 'Self', death is no more; One is himself, the Absolute Supreme Soul."
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"Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create 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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"Everything you have is bought by the currency of time."
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"One man told me, 'My tooth is hurting'. Why would 'your' tooth hurt you? This is considered a contradicting statement. What is yours, it will never give you pain and what is not yours will always give you pain. If you expound on this, you will have the solution!"
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"The moment you choose to be accountable for all outcomes in your life, you distance yourself from the position of a victim and assume the role of a change agent."
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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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"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."
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"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."
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"He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit."
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"Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property."
Nationalization

"And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit."
Choice

"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
Man

"It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment."
Man

"There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief."
People

"If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s."
Economy

"It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else."
Power

"I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room."
Meeting

"Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill."
Work
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