Sarah VowellI guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.
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Well, the whole point of the Buddha is that he didn't want to own anything. He didn't want worldly possessions. He just wanted to find a way for people to live in peace and harmony with each other. The fact that he would want Earth to be his property, well, I think that would go against the spirit of what he originally set out to do.
Source: Unfamiliar Fishes
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