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Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
-Maria Edgeworth
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Some People Talk Of Morality, And Some

Maria Edgeworth
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.
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In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. he has a property of peculiar value in his religious opinions, and in the profession and practice dictated by them. he has an equal property in the free use of his faculties and free choice of the objects on which to employ them. in a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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Everywhere the tendency has been to separate religion from morality, to set them in opposition even. but a religion without morality is a superstition and a curse; and anything like an adequate and complete morality without religion is impossible. the only salvation for man is in the union of the two as christianity unites them.
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One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... what those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. the absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.
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When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. it is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. but the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.
Men Rights Political
You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to talk r-rated. i mean i've got three incredibly intelligent daughters, but when you get mad, you get mad and you talk like people talk. when a normal 17-year-old girl storms out of the house or 15-year-old boy is mad at his mom or dad, they're not talking the way people talk on tv. unless it's cable.
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People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. people understand what property is. but it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. it uses a new way of defining the property.
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