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"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)" »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." »William James
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"property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last." »William Graham Sumner
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"The best ideas are common property." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"property has its duties as well as its rights." »Thomas Brummond
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"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing." »George Bernard Shaw
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"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session." »Judge Gideon J. Tucker
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"Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session." »Daniel Webster
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"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." »Henrik Ibsen
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." »Aristotle
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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority." »George Bancroft
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"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares" »Mark Twain
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"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." »Oscar Wilde
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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." »Marian Wright Edelman
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"A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise." »Aldo Leopold
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"We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?" »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." »Ambrose Bierce
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"There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." »Andrew Carnegie
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"Water, everywhere over the earth, flows to join together. A single natural law controls it. Each human is a member of a community and should work within it." »I Ching
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"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement." »Albert Einstein
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