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• I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.

  John Marston

  Brother, People, Arms

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• Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

  Barack Obama

  Economy, American Economy

  "Obama Warns Of Dangerous Consequences If Debt Limit Isn't Raised". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. January 14, 2013.

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• We accept without reservation the scriptural teachings that Christ is the Son of God and that he came into the world to ransom men from the spiritual and temporal death brought into the world by the fall of Adam. No one can state too plainly or emphasize too strongly this eternal truth that salvation is in Christ and that it comes because of his atoning sacrifice. Nor can we set forth too clearly the gospel truth that we also must do certain things to be saved.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Spiritual, Fall, Teaching

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• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  Walker Percy

  Girl, Song, Eye

  Walker Percy (1978). “Love in the ruins: the adventures of a bad Catholic at a time near the end of the world”

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• Dear Mia, What can I say? I don't know all that much about romance novels, but I think you must be the Stephen King of the genre. Your book is hot. Thanks for letting me read it. Anyone who doesn't want to publish it is a fool. Anyway, since I know it's your birthday, and I also know you never remember to back anything up, here's a little something I made for you. It would be a shame if Ransom My Heart got lost before it ever saw the light of day because your hard drive crashed. See you tonight. Love, Michael

  Meg Cabot

  Kings, Book, Heart

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• Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

  Aldous Huxley

  Queens, Eye, Desire

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• I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

  Akshay Kumar

  Way, Moments, My Way

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• Ransom thought her girly tendencies the funniest thing ever, constantly teased her over them, but the last time he'd opened his big mouth, she'd gotten her own back by pointing out that his long black hair sure did look well conditioned.

  Nalini Singh

  Girly, Hair, Long

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• Well, you won't unless you come to lunch with me," Cal said. "I'm holding it for ransom. There's a gun to its heel right now." "I have lunch at my desk," Min began, and thought,Oh, for crying out loud, could I beany more pathetic ? "Emilio is experimenting with a lunch menu. He needs you. I need you.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Gun, Lunch, Needs

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.122, St. Martin's Press

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• We'll abduct Garian. Or Jason." "And—?" "And dump them into the ocean. Nobody would ever pay a ransom for them.

  Sherwood Smith

  Ocean, Jason, Pay

  Sherwood Smith (2008). “The Trouble with Kings”, p.79, Samhain Publishing

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• I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Taught, Thee

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas), Mary T. Clark (2000). “An Aquinas Reader”, p.12, Fordham Univ Press

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• Remember that mentor leadership is all about serving. Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

  Tony Dungy

  Jesus, Son, Men

  Tony Dungy (2010). “The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently”, p.44, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Doom And Gloom, People, Perspective

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• Ah. Medieval-style ransom.” Toot looked confused. “He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.” There were several conspicuous sounds behind me, the loudest from my apprentice, and I turned to eye everyone else. They were all either covering smiles or holding them back— poorly. “Hey, peanut gallery,” I said. “This isn’t as easy as I’m making it look.” “You’re doing fine,” Karrin said, her eyes twinkling. I sighed. “Come on, Toot,” I said, and walked over to Hook.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Confused, Eye

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• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Choices, Joy, Way

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• I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2627, Oxford University Press

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• Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Prayer, People, Political

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• No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.

  Mark Steyn

  Pain, Add, Lasts

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As an editor, I must often tell writers that their stories "do not fit our present needs." But there are times when I want to reply: "Sir, I would not trust you to write a ransom note."

  Richard Conniff

  Writing, Editors, History

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• Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.

  Horace Mann

  Philosophy, Cutting, Evil

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.11

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• I'd like to be called Ransom Spunk or Spunk Ransom.

  Robert Pattinson

  Spunk

  "'Twilight' stars answer more of fans' burning questions: Robert Pattinson's nickname, Kristen Stewart's Kklutziness and more". Fans' Burning Questions, www.mtv.com. May 27, 2008.

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• A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed is going to be great enough for him to ransom himself completely, and he may always be in his mother's debt. If he understands that . . . he won't have to feel guilty, and he won't have to please her completely. He can go ahead and be nice to her and let her be part of his life.

  Frank Pittman

  Mother, Running, Real

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• The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Lonely, Loneliness, Artist

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• To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Money, Father

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• One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken.

  William Safire

  Taken, Differences, United States

  "Tar Baby Strikes Again" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 13, 1986.

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