| Derek Walcott |  The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott |
| destitute | Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton
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| destroyed | 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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| Dexter S. King | What everybody misses here is that we are doing the same thing my father did. He licensed and litigated and protected his property, and we have to follow the same tradition, because the way the law reads, if you don't protect it, you lose it.
Dexter S. King |
| Dick Ebersol | The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again.
Dick Ebersol |
| difference | When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.
Rudolf Arnheim
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| disarmament | I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
Roger Nash Baldwin
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| distribution | Gavin Terry, lead officer for Intellectual Property for the Trading Standards Institute, took part on a raid in Cheetham Hill, which is seen as an assembly and distribution hub for the fake goods trade throughout the UK.
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| Dixie Lee Ray | He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.
Dixie Lee Ray |
| Dixie Lee Ray | There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.
Dixie Lee Ray |
| Doc Hastings | In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.
Doc Hastings |
| Dolley Madison | I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
Dolley Madison |
| Dolley Madison | Our private property must be sacrificed.
Dolley Madison |
| Don Rose | The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
Don Rose |
| e. e. cummings | Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
e. e. cummings |
| Earl Blumenauer | A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
Earl Blumenauer |
| easement | "Prescriptive easement" cannot give the holder of the easment a right to protect a view over a neighboring property no matter how long a property owner has had a view over the neighbor's property. |
| easement | An easement is a non-possessory interest to use real property in possession of another person for a stated purpose. |
| easement | Unlike a lease, an easement does not give the holder a right of "possession" of the property. |
| Edward Coke | So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
Edward Coke |
