In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
When you talk about "infertility" you're already using a land-based metaphor - a woman's body compared to property, to be considered fruitful… — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
What some men don't understand is that by opposing policies to reduce violence, promote equal pay and universal healthcare and voting to… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can't be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass,… — Austin Dacey Copy Share Image
Plasma seems to have the kinds of properties one would like for life. It's somewhat like liquid water--unpredictable and thus able to… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was an easy thing to tax for a young country. And then gradually we moved to property taxes, manufacturing taxes, and… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards.… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
I don't feel so strongly against remakes, but if I don't like it, I guess I just don't do it. It is… — James Wan Copy Share Image
The discoveries of the last couple decades are showing that properties of a self do actually inhere in matter, that matter seems… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
We had made a - sort of a national decision that we wanted to be this intellectual property country, where we would… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new… — John Henry Holland Copy Share Image
Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home… — Anthea Turner Copy Share Image
I tend to go with things people need. Obviously with the barbershop, people will need haircuts regardless of the economy. In a… — Kamerion Wimbley Copy Share Image
People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him the… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by… — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
Our Founding Fathers well understood that concentrated power is the enemy of liberty and the rights of man. They knew that the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
I understood when I was just a child that without water, everything dies. I didn't understand until much later that no one… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means… — Brian Martin Copy Share Image
In life, (the fashion world) is full of sharks. In this world the young girls lose themselves; become the property of others,… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
“I resist the urge to claim some of the pretty purple flowers for myself, though Gaewha tries the scissors and then clutches… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Comics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
If all those magnificent cathedrals with their valuable lands in Boston, Philadelphia and New York were taxed as they should be, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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