Ownership
The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
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Ownership Quotations
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Tim Berners-Lee
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
Jerzy Kosinski
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
Mortimer Zuckerman
The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.
Mortimer Zuckerman
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
Toni Morrison
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
William Graham Sumner
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry
I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
Kin Hubbard
A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch
Ownership Translations
ownership in Danish is ejendom
ownership in Dutch is eigendom, eigendomsrecht
ownership in German is Eigentumsrecht, Eigentum
ownership in Hungarian is tulajdonjog, tulajdon
ownership in Portuguese is posse
ownership in Spanish is propiedad
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