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[Quote No.256] Need Area: Property > General
"Possession is nine points of the law." - 17th century proverb
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[Quote No.276] Need Area: Property > General
"All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights...among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property." - George Mason
[1725-1792], American statesman
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[Quote No.277] Need Area: Property > General
"The function of Government must be to favour no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and private property of all its citizens." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
[1882-1945], the thirty-second President of the United States (1933-1945).
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[Quote No.278] Need Area: Property > General
"Property is the fruit of labor: property is desirable; it is a positive good" - Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865), American lawyer and President
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[Quote No.887] Need Area: Property > General
"Health is the greatest possession. " - Lao Tzu
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[Quote No.1113] Need Area: Property > General
"Private property was the original source of freedom." - Walter Lippmann
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[Quote No.1114] Need Area: Property > General
"[Private property:] Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty." - John Adams
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[Quote No.1115] Need Area: Property > General
"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
Former oil tycoon and at one time Russia's richest man.
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[Quote No.1116] Need Area: Property > General
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If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.
" - James F. Cooper
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[Quote No.1117] Need Area: Property > General
"Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
" - Roger Babson
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[Quote No.1908] Need Area: Property > General
"If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
" - Marc Newson
designer
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[Quote No.1909] Need Area: Property > General
"You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
" - Marc Newson
designer
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[Quote No.2851] Need Area: Property > General
"[Travel:] Drive slow and enjoy the scenery - drive fast and join the scenery.
" - Doug Horton
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[Quote No.3299] Need Area: Property > General
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." - Saint Augustine
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[Quote No.8504] Need Area: Property > General
"The best things in life aren't things.
" - Art Buchwald
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[Quote No.9707] Need Area: Property > General
"Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that our grandfathers paid for it - with their lives.
" - John Wooden Legs
Cheyenne
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[Quote No.11315] Need Area: Property > General
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. " - Saint Augustine of Hippo
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[Quote No.12193] Need Area: Property > General
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. " - Saint Augustine
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[Quote No.16182] Need Area: Property > General
"Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich." - Sebastian Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
(1741 - 1794) French satirist
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[Quote No.16183] Need Area: Property > General
"Without depth of thought, or earnestness of feeling, or strength of purpose, living an unreal life, sacrificing substance to show, substituting the fictitious for the natural, mistaking a crowd for society, finding its chief pleasure in ridicule, and exhausting its ingenuity in expedients, for killing time, fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed." - William Ellery Channing
(1780 - 1842) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.16184] Need Area: Property > General
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. [...and therefore dangerously distracts people from what is eternally important.]" - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
(1814 - 1880) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.16185] Need Area: Property > General
"Fashion is a word which knaves and fools may use to excuse their knavery and folly." - Sir Winston Churchill
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[Quote No.16186] Need Area: Property > General
"To be happy is of far less consequence to the worshippers of fashion than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation." - Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832) English clergy
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[Quote No.16188] Need Area: Property > General
"He alone is a man, who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage. [...and stick to the eternal values.]" - Johann Kaspar Lavater
(1741 - 1801) Swiss physiognomist, theologian and writer
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[Quote No.16189] Need Area: Property > General
"Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches." - John Locke
(1632 - 1704) English philosopher
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[Quote No.16190] Need Area: Property > General
"We should conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every wise man should attend to this in his dress as well as language; never be affected in anything, but follow, without being in too great haste, the changes of fashion." - Jean Baptiste Moliere
(1622 - 1673) French dramatist
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[Quote No.16191] Need Area: Property > General
"...the wise man is never the first to follow [fashions], nor the last to keep them.
" - Blaise Pascal
(1623 - 1662) French mathematician and philosopher
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[Quote No.16192] Need Area: Property > General
"The fashion doth wear out more apparel than the man." - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.16193] Need Area: Property > General
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862) American naturalist and essayist
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[Quote No.16572] Need Area: Property > General
"How very beautiful these gems are! It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one like scent....They look like fragments of heaven." - George Eliot
(pen-name of Mary Ann Evans) English novelist (1819 - 1880)
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[Quote No.17133] Need Area: Property > General
"We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the Westinghouse, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable." - unknown
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[Quote No.18105] Need Area: Property > General
"The most important things in life are not things!" - Anthony J. D'Angelo
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[Quote No.18259] Need Area: Property > General
"Avarice and luxury, those pests that have ever been the ruin of every great state. [and person]" - Livy
(59 B.C. - 17 A.D.) Roman historian
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[Quote No.18260] Need Area: Property > General
"Luxury makes a man so soft, that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him. So that his pleasures at last become his burden." - Henry MacKenzie
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[Quote No.18264] Need Area: Property > General
"Luxury is excessive desire, or even love, of living sumptuously. [It becomes catastophic when it becomes more important than fulfilling responsibilities.]" - Benedict Spinoza
(1632 - 1677) Dutch - Jewish philosopher
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[Quote No.18368] Need Area: Property > General
"An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance [to the foolishly indiscriminate, unfortunately. The wise look deeper.]" - Laurence J. Peter
(1919 - 1990) Canadian author, educator, psychologist, & management theorist in U. S.
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[Quote No.19577] Need Area: Property > General
"In most countries, people grow fiercely possessive of their property." - Gordon W. Allport
(1897 - 1967) American psychologist
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[Quote No.19578] Need Area: Property > General
"The power of perpetuating our property in our families [through wills, inheritance and legacies] is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself." - Edmund Burke
(1729 - 1797) English orator and statesman
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[Quote No.19579] Need Area: Property > General
"The preservation of the rights of private property was the very keystone of the arch upon which all civilized governments rest." - Joseph Hodges Choate
(1832 - 1917) American lawyer and diplomat
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[Quote No.19580] Need Area: Property > General
"What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but also scarcely less for those who do not." - Friedrich Hayek
(1899 - 1992) Austrian economist
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[Quote No.19581] Need Area: Property > General
"Property is the fruit of labor: property is desirable; it is a positive good." - Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865) 16th U.S. President
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[Quote No.19582] Need Area: Property > General
"The only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property." - Walter Lippman
(1889 - 1974) American author and editor
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[Quote No.19583] Need Area: Property > General
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property." - John Locke
(1632 - 1704) English philosopher
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[Quote No.19584] Need Area: Property > General
"All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights. . . Among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property." - George Mason
(1725 - 1792)
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[Quote No.19586] Need Area: Property > General
"Property is dear to men not only for the sensual pleasure it can afford, but also because it is the bulwark of all they hold dearest on earth, and above all else, because it is the safeguard of those they love most against misery and all physical distress." - William Graham Sumner
(1840 - 1910) American economist
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[Quote No.19589] Need Area: Property > General
"The man who has half a million dollars in property has a much higher interest in the government [and the well-being of his country] than the man who has little or no property." - Noah Webster
(1758 - 1843) American lexicographer
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[Quote No.21071] Need Area: Property > General
"By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.21128] Need Area: Property > General
"The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom." - J. G. Ballard
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[Quote No.22017] Need Area: Property > General
"Don’t be anxious about what you have, but about what you are." - Pope Gregory the Great
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[Quote No.22626] Need Area: Property > General
"If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves." - Zig Ziglar
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