Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton 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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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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I do have a muse. I am not sure how to describe her. She can be very elusive. She was born in England but has Mediterranean ancestry.
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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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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.
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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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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.
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The property of power is to protect.
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No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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She hopes that she will get support from the BJP. I am supporting her because I don't think that I am separated from BJP.
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The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.
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A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
