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- {"topic":"possessions","quotes":[{"quote":"Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.","author":"Barack Obama"},{"quote":"We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than vising to the challenges of the age.","author":"Bias"},{"quote":"The wise man carries his possessions within him.","author":"Colleen Wainwright"},{"quote":"I love stuff as much as the next guy, but I�ve come to understand that, regardless of the cost of acquiring it, the price of having it is freedom.","author":"Colley Cibber"},{"quote":"Possession is eleven points in the law.","author":"Francois de La Rochefoucauld"},{"quote":"I take care of my things. After all, those of us as has few things to begin with must take care, lest we have fewer.","author":"John Ruskin"},{"quote":"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.","author":"Lao-tzu"},{"quote":"Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.","author":"Marcel Proust"},{"quote":"To have little is to possess.<br>To have plenty is to be perplexed.","author":"Pliny the Younger"},{"quote":"Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.","author":"Terence"},{"quote":"An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.","author":"Vida D. Scudder"},{"quote":"I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want."},{"quote":"It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."}]}
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