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Whenever you are attached to something, that possessiveness deepens your delusion. You will be rudely awakened one day to find that nothing belongs to you.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Divine Romance: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 2
(always his) money.
Emily Wilson • The Greatest Empire: A Life of Seneca
Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.
William Shakespeare • The Complete Works of Shakespeare
Waste is the antiproperty that becomes the possession of losers. It is the emblem of the untitled.
James P. Carse • Finite and Infinite Games
will report one verse of his that is relevant to philosophy and indeed to the topic I was just discussing. In it he asserts that things that come by chance ought not to be regarded as belonging to us: Whatever comes by wishing is not your possession.*
Lucius Annaeus Seneca • Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
“lost and paid for” file.
Margaret Saponaro • Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
Human property
Mary Beard • SPQR
PROS. Look thou be true; do not give dalliance Too much the rein: the strongest oaths are straw To the fire i’ the blood: be more abstemious, Or else, good night your vow!
William Shakespeare • The Tempest (Dover Thrift Editions: Plays)
•Do not use an apostrophe when a word is primarily descriptive rather than possessive: e.g., homeowners association, kids department, teachers college, writers room. [The word is acting more like an adjective than a possessive noun.]