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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

“That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken, and the vacancies be supplied by frequent, certain, and regular elections, in which all, or any part of the former members, to be again eligible, or ineligible, as the laws shall direct.”

“If man is to remain the creator and master of his world then, Stirner maintains, ... all that has been accepted, that has taken on the secure guise of the 'fact', must be return to a state of flux, or be rejected.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens States Facts Taken Masters Return Creator Accepted Secure Rejected Guise Flux

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.”

People Persons Country Certain Individual Taken Happened Childhood Return Siege Under Siege

Book:Black Dreams

Source: Black Dreams

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.”

Mind Persons Book Hands Desire Taken Return Down And Library Passing Passings Realising Volume Strict Shelves Heed

Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.”

Knows Art Faces Taken Return Birth Bread Dust Sweat

Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton

Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton

“Where woman has taken her place in business she has found her method ready-shaped for her, and following that, she does her work,if with a certain amount of monotony, yet without undue fatigue. Her hours are fixed, and as a rule she gets needful change of scene as she goes to her business and returns to her home or the place where she lives. But the "home- maker" has not, nor can she have, any such change, and her hours are always from the rising of the sun beyond the going down of the same.”

Ifs Doe Home Certain Found Hours Sun Taken Ready Return Amount Scene Method Following Fixed Rising Makers Fatigue Monotony Working Women

Author:Anna Brackett

“To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.”

People Long Has Beens Sin Taken Land Honest Position Return Resolution Observers Zimbabwe Overdue

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“Christ came to save us. If we have taken a wrong course, the Atonement of Jesus Christ can give us the assurance that sin is not a point of no return. A safe return is possible if we will follow God's plan for our salvation”

Ifs Giving Courses Jesus Christ Sin Taken Plans Return Safe Jesus Christ Salvation Assurance Atonement God's Plan Safe Return

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability. Nobody is afraid that the money they place in the US is at risk of expropriation or of in some other way being taken away. For this safety, the wealth holders of the world are willing to accept a lower rate of return.”

People World Way Country Political Wealth Accepting Taken Risk Security Willing Return Safety Rate Attractive Instability Political Instability

Author:Milton Friedman

“The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.”

Two Faces Taken Fire Four Return Equal Riders Drought Prairie Tornadoes Horsemen Four Horsemen

Book:PrairyErth: A Deep Map

Source: PrairyErth: A Deep Map