William Graham Sumner Quotes
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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I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Adam Sandler is a remarkable movie brand.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.
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I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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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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Tony Judt's remarkable 'The Memory Chalet' was written from the prison of mute immobility.
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You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.
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Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it] is not a coercive action. It is rather part of a package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job when she agrees to accept the job, and especially when she agrees to keep the job. The office is, after all, private property. The secretary does not have to remain if the 'coercion' is objectionable.
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We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
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No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.
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I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.
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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.
