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Quotes About Property

So we have this eyesore on the property. No, it's not the beagle. I can understand why you'd think that, though.
~ Unknown
Too often, we are unaware of the risks associated with defective trees which can cause personal injury and property damage,-HOW TO INSPECT TREE AND RECOGNIZE HAZARDOUS TREE DEFECTS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
~ Unknown
I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but it wasn't necessarily a house I would want to live in. So I ripped down that house, and I worked with these great lumberjacks to build a really cool cabin—a place I want to drink whiskey in and hang out until the sun rises.
~ Vanessa Carlton
Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way, the safest way, but the only way to become wealthy.
~ Marshall Field
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
~ George Bancroft
Real estate is the best investment in the world because it is the only thing they're not making any more.
~ Will Rogers
The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.
~ Unknown
In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.
~ Michael C. Burgess
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
~ George Bernard Shaw
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.
~ Marjorie Scardino
If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.
~ Edward Thomas
God's justice is subordinate to his love, for his justice is a property of his character, but his love is his essential self. For do not the Scriptures say, "God is love," but never, "God is justice"?
~ Unknown
Slaves, like oxen and sheep, were known as 'live money'.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The Normans also gave to the English the concept of the inherited surname that came to define a unified family and its property.
~ Peter Ackroyd
The law stated that those with property worth more than £20 a year were obliged to adopt the status of knights; but knighthood was an expensive business, with the cost of equipment alone, and many landowners were ready to pay a relatively large sum to avoid the honour.
~ Peter Ackroyd
at the beginning of September, parliament declared that those who opposed its intentions were 'delinquents' or 'malignant and disaffected persons' whose property could be confiscated.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Houses, like stocks, are most likely to be profitable when they're held for a long period of time. Unlike stocks, houses are likely to be owned by the same person for a number of years—seven, I think, is the average. Compare this to the
~ Peter Lynch
The old Wall Street adage never invest in anything that eats or needs repairs may apply to racehorses, but it's mlarkey when it comes to houses.
~ Peter Lynch
Compulsory purchase order. March 13th, 2017.
~ Peter Robinson
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.
~ Peter Singer
There was one, a Mr. Omuro, who had bought control of a great area of rental property in downtown San Francisco, and who for a time had been Frank's landlord. There was a bad apple, he thought. A shark who had never made repairs, had partitioned rooms smaller and smaller, raised rents
~ Philip K. Dick
The big economic forces had managed to remain free, although virtually everything else had been absorbed by the Government. Laws that had been eased away from the private person still protected property and industry.
~ Philip K. Dick
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.
~ Philip Pullman