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“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.”

Ifs Men Years Firsts Use Used Three House Given Taken Fields Return Garden Claims Possession Owners Three Years

Author:Hammurabi

“The most insistent and formidable concern of agriculture, wherever it is taken seriously, is the distinct individuality of every farm, every field on every farm, every farm family, and every creature on every farm.”

Taken Fields Creatures Concern Individuality Farms Agriculture Formidable

Book:The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

Source: The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays

“My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.”

People Knows Way Firsts Mean Said Two Use Law Three Father Taken Doubt Figures Fields Habit Abuse Obvious Observation Speakers Quotations Toil Remarks When In Doubt Wilde Bernard Shaw Use And Abuse

Author:Nigel Rees

“Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the field of logic, and that ever correct inference proceeds in accordance with its laws.”

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Author:Alfred Tarski

“Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.”

Trying Language Taken Fields Atmosphere Electrical Language Words

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.”

Spirit Belief Taken Fields Superstitions Loopholes

Author:David Niven

“I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.”

Writing Stories Opportunity Taken Fields Advantage Experiments Storytelling Linear Videogame Taken Advantage

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.”

Should Sometimes Taken Feet Fields Music Is Males

Author:Missy Elliot

“We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.”

People Children Has Beens Stills School Born Taken Generations Fields Republic Bus Haiti Haitian Dominican Republic

Author:Edwidge Danticat