Hammurabi famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.
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The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
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If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.
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If a man has knocked out the teeth of a man of the same rank, his own teeth shall be knocked out.
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I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.
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If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
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Mesopotamia will be one together as city-states we cannot create a full out war over nothing, this will be settled
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if a builder builds a house and the house falls and kills some one in the house the owners may kill the builder.
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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.
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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
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The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.
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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.