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“So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.”

Should Hands Community Ability Objects Equal Raises Burden Debt Oppression Suits Operations Proportion Expenses Taxation Revenue Adapted

Book:John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in the present case come to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil or unhappiness to the party who whose is considered: if that party be the community in general, then the happiness of the community; if a particular individual; then the happiness of that individual”

Ifs Pain Evil Individual Community Pleasure Party Cases Objects Produce Particular Benefits Happenings Advantage Property Unhappiness Utility Mischief

Book:The Principles of Morals and Legislation

Source: The Principles of Morals and Legislation

“His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”

“The legendary missionary journey of St. Paul, which led to the foundation of the British church, presupposes the existence of a Jewish community - always the initial object of his propaganda - even before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in the year 70.”

Years Community Church Existence Journey Objects Foundation British Propaganda Capture Missionary Initials Jerusalem Legendary Jewish Community

Author:Cecil Roth

“In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.”

Source: Character and characteristic men

“My object is to live in a place that does not call itself 'the community with a heart.' I want one of those godforsaken towns where all the young people leave and the rest sit on the porch with a rifle across their knees.”

People Want Heart Doe Young Community Objects Towns Knees Rifles Porch Sociability

Author:Florence King

“It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object.”

Way May Moving Desire Easy Community Silence Objects Sweet Discipline Shapes Bird Tradition Crosses Wings Caught Bitter Wander Paradox Void Twisted Back And Forth Navigate

Author:Wendy Farley

“In reading The History of Nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their peculiarities, their seasons of excitement and recklessness, when they care not what they do. We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.”

Source: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds: Illustrated with numerous engravings. (2 Thle in 1 vol.). I

“The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.”

Made Would Be Together Used Wish Community Sacrifice Objects Built Appropriate Priests Ritual Shrines

Author:Chris Abani