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By George H. W. Bush
My friends, we are not the sum of our possessions.
- Source
- Inaugural Address, January 20, 1989
- Read at
- The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
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From Bush's inaugural address on January 20, 1989. He asks whether Americans have become enthralled with material things, then adds, "They are not the measure of our lives."