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Owning a name
- Subject: Owning a name
- From: LarrySheldon at cox.net (Larry Sheldon)
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 19:47:20 -0500
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I keep thinking (in this "you can not own a name" thing) about the early
occupants of North America who to a man, I believe, argued that fences
were just wrong, because you can't own the land.
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