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"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."

"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."

"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."

"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."

"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."

"Progress is discovering what you can do without."

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
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"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."

"Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn't. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn't."

"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."

"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."
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