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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. – John Locke

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Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. – John Locke

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It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. – John Locke

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By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. – Henry David Thoreau

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The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. – John Adams

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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same. – Bhagavad Gita

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