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"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
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"Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate."
"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves."
"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."
"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."
"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."
"Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours."
"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."
"So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life."
"Everything you have is bought by the currency of time."
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"It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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