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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
Andy Rooney

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden

Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.
Suze Orman

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.
Dixie Lee Ray

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.
Lillie Langtry

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
Martin C. Smith

Delhi is my emotional home. I still dream of owning a home there.
Kabir Bedi

I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
Don Young

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.
Alexandra Paul

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.
Cliff Richard

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
Katherine Heigl

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
Jackson Browne

For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.
Solomon Ortiz

There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular.
Hilary Rosen

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
Martin Lewis Perl

There are a lot of impractical things about owning a Porsche. But they're all offset by the driving experience. It really is unique. Lamborghinis and Ferraris come close. And they are more powerful, but they don't handle like a Porsche.
Kevin O'Leary

I've had the luxury of owning my own studio, 24 analogue, 48 digital, endless effects, endless hardcore gear, that I don't have to rent, I don't get stuck with the bills, it's all mine.
Billy Sherwood

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa.
George Steinbrenner

I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.
Dave Foley

Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
Peter Brimelow

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.
Dorothy Day

Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.
Jeff Cooper

Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.
John O'Hara

Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.
Jacob Hacker

There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
Kenny Guinn

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.
Michael Dukakis

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