Owners Quotes - Page 4

• Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Men, Land, Desert

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “Lawrence of Arabia: The Man Behind the Myth (Complete Autobiographical Works, Memoirs & Letters): Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Memoirs of the Arab Revolt) + The Evolution of a Revolt + The Mint (Memoirs of the secret service in Royal Air Force) + Collected Letters (1915-1935)”, p.59, e-artnow

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• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dog, Silly, Animal

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Freedom, Tyrants, Slave Owners

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• Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

  Pope John Paul II

  Justice, Violence, Social

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• The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.

  A. J. Liebling

  Christmas, Fall, Mean

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Compassion is no substitute for justice.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Compassion, Justice, Substitutes

  "Undeniable Truth #35" in Limbaugh's radio show, February 18, 1994.

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• Most small-business owners will tell you they don't want Obama 'boosting' them. They just want him to get out of the way.

  Michelle Malkin

  Want, Way, Small Business

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• Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

  Joe Manchin

  Gun, Law, People

  "Joe Manchin Ready For Gun Control Action: ‘Everything Should Be On The Table’" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2012.

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• He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Trust, Money, Wish

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• Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

  Francois Mauriac

  Men, Wings, Venture

  "Journal, 1932-1939". Book by François Mauriac, Table ronde, p. 6, 1947.

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• The bill that job creators and out-of-work Americans need us to pass is the one that ensures taxes won't go up - one that says Americans and small-business owners won't get hit with more bad news at the end of the year.

  Mitch McConnell

  Jobs, Years, Needs

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• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Justice, Bears

  "Prejudices: Third Series".

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• Owners lavish love on their pets, which is why so many go from non-aggressive pups to being out of control when they're older. People just don't realise their dog must respect them as leader of the pack.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, People, Leader

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• I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners.

  Cory Monteith

  Cat, People, House

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I want Americans to realize that we are the owners of this country, and that one person can make a difference.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

  Michael Moore

  Nice, School, Slave Owners

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• We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.

  Robert Mugabe

  Land, Would Be, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Thinking, Clubs

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• It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

  Robert Musil

  Believe, School, Errors

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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• My owner is life and that's what I fight for.

  Pitbull

  Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Use, Way

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• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Kids, Cutting

  News conference in the East Wing, www.nytimes.com. June 29, 2011.

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• States should pass laws making it illegal to own or trade wild animals; the phony 'educational' permits that many private owners have used to skirt those laws should be eliminated.

  Susan Orlean

  Educational, Animal, Law

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Ideas, Justice

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