Quotes with property

Quotes 81 till 95 of 95.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barbara Corcoran What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Gail Hamilton Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
    Gail Hamilton
    American writer (1833 - 1896)
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  • Thomas Jefferson When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Benjamin Watson When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Frederick Douglass 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 oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • John Locke Where there is no property there is no injustice.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Barbara Castle Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Barber Conable Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
    The Conable years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Barber B. Conable, 1986-91
    Barber Conable
    American politician (1922 - 2003)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Bruce Catton As contraband, fugitive slaves could be collected and used by a Union army just as any other property could be collected and used, and nobody was in any way committed on any side of the slavery issue itself.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Dedman The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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