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• [For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as their government. In a democracy it would be your government.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Government, People

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Enemy, Faces

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Food, Character

  Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

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• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

  Maya Angelou

  Balance, World, Demand

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.173, Modern Library

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• ... we are there with our cameras to record reality. Once we start modifying that which exists, we are robbing photography of its most valuable attribute.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Photography, Reality, Cameras

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• You have a right to have a feather duster. If anyone breaks in, you can make sure they're really clean as they're robbing your house.

  Ted Cruz

  House, Clean, Break

  Source: time.com

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• Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

  Kim Jong Il

  Aids, Subjugation, Plunder

  "The madness of Kim Jong II" by Philip Gourevitch, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2003.

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• I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Action, Social, Commit

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• I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Sun, Crude, Feels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The appalling details of the campaign of intimidation - which include grave-robbing - show the depths to which the animal extremists are prepared to stoop.

  Tony Blair

  Animal, Depth, Details

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• They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

  Kenneth Roberts

  Art, War, Widows And Orphans

  Kenneth Roberts (1947). “Lydia Bailey”

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• Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?

  Sheri Fink

  Men, Dying, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Any parent would have reservations if their kid came home dressed like a skinhead, but mine understood that punk kept me focused on something when so many of my friends were out robbing 7-Elevens.

  Daughn Gibson

  Home, Kids, Parent

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy involved, that's probably preferable to the bonafide adventure of robbing a bank. A better alternative, however, is to learn to be at peace even when common sense (a highly overrated virtue) would lead you to believe that someone in your situation ought to feel threatened and insecure.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Adventure, Insecure

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• DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than snatching purses for a living, or robbing graves.

  Larry Lujack

  Hero, Jockeys, Today

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• If you want to say something profound, writing from your heartbeat is different than writing from the loud voices you get from music. If they're rapping from noise, it's about robbing people. It's that simple.

  Russell Simmons

  Rap, Writing, Simple

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Russia, Names, Humanity

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• I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

  Paul McCartney

  Hate, Ideas, Private Life

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• You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to be fun, where you can see the ramifications, you see the impact on people's lives of big changes - like taking a man of science, like a surgeon, and robbing him of his understanding of the universe and forcing him into a newer and wider understanding.

  Jon Spaihts

  Fun, Real, Men

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My Cop Stopper was a Pokémon ball that you push the button and then Tesla's coils go in and the chemical compound reactions go, so it's an electrical ball so once you throw it out the window usually, in my idea of robbing a bank, I'd go through an alley way, and what this Pokémon ball would do, is it hits the metal of the cop car .

  Kellan Lutz

  Ideas, Car, Buttons

  Source: www.twilightlexicon.com

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• I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.

  Daphne Oz

  Sun, Food Love, Diets

  "Daphne Oz’s cookbook aims for weekend cooking on weekdays". Interview with Lynn Elber, apnews.com. September 23, 2016.

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• Throughout history government has seldom hesitated from robbing its citizens in a crisis.

  James Cook

  Government, Citizens, Crisis

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• There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself - but you just can't help it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Unbearable, Thieves, Unjust

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• We can be of so much service to others in many thou-shalt ways. Of course, the problem is that rendering such service takes time, and we are all so busy. Some situations may call for service that somehow seems to be beneath us. Besides, we have other things to do. The thou shalts are so convenient to put off. Who will notice the procrastination anyway? After all, we are not robbing a bank. Or are there forms of withholding that constitute stealing?

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Procrastination, May, Way

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