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“If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the law of periodicity.”

Ifs Law Science Order Elements Weight Property Repetition Periodicity

Book:Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905

Source: Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905

“Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.”

Body Water Loses Virtue Greater Balance Elements Property Proportion

Book:The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

Source: The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt

“The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.”

Source: The Indian Journals, 1859-62

“Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.”

“As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems of law and of political economy. While admitting its great importance, we cannot conceal the fact that the writers on those subjects have wholly failed to distinguish between its use and its abuse, or to recognize its rational and equitable limits.”

“If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Different Might Impossible Elements Property Heavy Nuclear Bombs Might Have Been Atomic Bomb

Author:Emilio G. Segre

“A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom”

People Firsts Elements Institutions Property Private Property

Book:The History of Freedom: Great Event

Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event

“Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all or nearly all their relevant properties from other elements of culture that they replicate.”

Giving Culture Process Support Elements Evidence Claims Property Relevant Transmission Replicate Empirical Evidence

Author:Dan Sperber

“NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.”

“An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.”

Facts Desire Theory Elements Argument Property Communist

Book:Social Statics: Great Essays

Source: Social Statics: Great Essays