Spider Robinson Quotes
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.
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People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.
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Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.
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One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.
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I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
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This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.
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They should also consider owning their property as tenants-in-common, rather than jointly, and they could also think about leaving their property in some form of trust.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
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The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
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Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.
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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
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But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
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When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.
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As property prices started rising, developers snatched up bomb sites and derelict buildings and erected the shapeless concrete lumps that have made the ’70s the shining beacon of architectural splendor that it is.
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I always had a good dexterity. The story in my family goes that at the age of 3 I could thread needles faster than anybody.
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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.
