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Ownership Quotes
"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property."
25
"If a man own land the land owns him."
25
"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."
24
"Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing."
24
"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."
20
"You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation."
20
"I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership."
19
"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!"
18
"If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you."
17
"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."
16
"Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate."
16
"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."
16
"So because you are converting it, you are grabbing back your life."
16
"Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours."
16
"The only person to blame for your situation is you."
15
"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."
15
"That which the entire world regards as 'mine', it is [really] 'not mine'; this Knowledge itself is the Self, the Soul."
14
"The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, "This is mine," and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, how many wars, how many murders, how many misfortunes and horrors, would that man have saved the human species, who pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditches should have cried to his fellows: Be sure not to listen to this imposter; you are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody!"
13
"Everything you have is bought by the currency of time."
11
"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."
10
"Possession they say is eleven points of the law."
4
"I'm pleased to know you realize she is mine, gypsy. Care to explain why it is that I find you here in the Gwarda arena and touching what belongs to me?"
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