Possessions

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  • It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual is degraded...to "human materiel".
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • I have taken all knowledge to by my province.
        Sir Francis Bacon   Best?
  • Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.
        Ann Landers   Best?
  • A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
        Kenneth Tynan   Best?
  • Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
        Les Brown   Best?
  • Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
        Nathaniel Emmons   Best?
  • Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
        Lewis Grizzard   Best?
  • They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
        Ani Difranco   Best?
  • ...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
        Sophocles   Best?
  • I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
        Themistocles   Best?
  • And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first--an attempted suicide.
        Chris Hubbock   Best?
  • George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise.
        Al Gore   Best?
  • Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
        Andre Gide   Best?
  • What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
        Mae West   Best?
  • We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.
        John Locke   Best?
  • Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
  • If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
        Socrates   Best?
  • Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
        Martin Luther King Jr.   Best?
  • It is the province of knowledge to speak
        Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
  • Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
        Demosthenes   Best?
  • The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
        Lee Iacocca   Best?
  • Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
        Socrates   Best?
  • The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
        Daniel J. Boorstin   Best?

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