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We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. ↗


— Lewis Thomas


#commonplace #creations #living #nature #nothing

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. ↗


— Patrick Henry


#christian religion #could #disposed #family #give

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners. ↗


— Stephanie Herseth


#congress #court #governments #landowners #local

Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results. ↗


— Wilhelm Ostwald


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Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square. ↗


— P.M. Forni


#property #respecting-others #home

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ↗


— Ivo Andric


#even #property #revolts #rule #without

To every man of great age - to Sir Wlater Bentham himself - the idea of suicide has once at least been present in the ante-room of his soul; on the threshold, waiting to enter, held out from the inmost chamber by some chance reality, some vague fear, some painful hope. The Man of Property, p. 363 ↗


— John Galsworthy


#age

Property is a nuisance. ↗


— Paul Erdos


#property

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. ↗


— John Jay


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The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work. ↗


— Mikhail Khodorkovsky


#concerned #duty #family #future #hard






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