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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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"Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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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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"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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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." »Oscar Levant
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"There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts." »Christine Lavin
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"It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous." »Andy Warhol
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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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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"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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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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"No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session." »Judge Gideon J. Tucker
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"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing." »George Bernard Shaw
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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 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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"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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"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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"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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"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths." »James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
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"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." »Elvis Presley
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"On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property." »Buddha
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"What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the internet -- and no one's gonna shut down the internet." »Steve Jobs
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"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice." »Max Nordau
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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to opress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." »Frederick Douglas
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." »Lucille Ball
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"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own." »Adam Smith
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"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ``Get the hell off my property.'" »Joan Rivers
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