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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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"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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"Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal." »Mary Baker Eddy
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"This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality Whatever it encounters in this temporal life Depends upon one's actions." »Siddha Nagarjuna
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"It is amazing that our souls -- our eternal essences, with all their hopes an dreams and visions of an eternal world -- are contained within these temporal bodies." »Marion Woodman
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"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs." »Saint Francis de Sales
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"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal." »Saint Augustine
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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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"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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"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus." »John Ashcroft
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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 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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"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." »Saint Augustine
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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