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It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1917

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Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isnt the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul. – Lewis H. Lapham

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