"In order to be exercised, the intelligence requires to be free to express itself without control by any authority. There must therefore be a domain of pure intellectual research, separate but accessible to all, where no authority intervenes. The human soul has need of some solitude and privacy and also of some social life. The human soul has need of both personal property and ."
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Simone Weil, Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation (1943), as translated by Richard Rees in online text at PBS
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Personal property
is generally considered property that is movable, as opposed to real property or real estate. In common law systems, personal property may also be called chattels or personalty. In civil law systems, personal property is often called movable property or movables – any property that can be moved from one location to another. Personal property is movable and can be understood in comparison to or , such as land and buildings. Movable property on land, for example, larger , was not automatically sol
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