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  1. Henry David Thoreau _ Familiar Letters

    What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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  2. Colson Whitehead _ The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef

    Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?
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  3. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was supposed to keep hold of his land, it'd still be his. If the white man wasn't destined to take this new world, he wouldn't own it now.Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor--if you can keep it, it is yours. Your property, slave or continent. The American imperative.
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  4. Patricia Highsmith _ Nothing That Meets the Eye:

    Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?
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  5. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.
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  6. Ray Bradbury _ Dandelion Wine

    My dear, you never will understand time, will you? You're always trying to be the things you were, instead of the person you are tonight. Why do you save those ticket stubs and theater programs? They'll only hurt you later. Throw them away, my dear.
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  7. William Shakespeare _ The Rape of Lucrece

    Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.
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  8. Nathaniel Hawthorne _ The House of the Seven Gables

    Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?
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  9. Wallace Stegner _ All the Little Live Things

    To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
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  10. Randy Alcorn _ Money, Possessions and

    There is a powerful relationship between our true spiritual condition and our attitude and actions concerning money and possessions.
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  11. Randy Alcorn _ Money, Possessions and

    Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. {For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.}
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  12. Alexander McCall Smith _ At the Reunion Buffet

    What we have, we all must lose-that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth-nothing more.
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