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• High bankruptcy rates, increased credit card debt, and identity theft make it imperative that all of us take an active role in providing financial and economic education during all stages of one's life.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Identity, Roles, Cards

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• I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

  Karel Capek

  Claims, Forbidden, Prove

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

  Patrick Leahy

  Care, Internet, Stealing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Honesty, Cowardice

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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• There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

  Aaron Swartz

  Light, Law, Justice

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

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• That'd be just what I need: a rash of car thefts across America, committed by dedicated readers.

  James Patterson

  America, Car, Needs

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.

  Ken Schoolland

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Mean, Liberty

  Chris Hedges (2005). “Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value

  Marcus Aurelius

  Age, Lapses, Literature

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• Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

  Kevin Bales

  Children, Might, Slavery

  Kevin Bales (2005). “Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Unthankfulness is theft.

  Martin Luther

  Gratitude, Being Thankful

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• Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

  Anthony of Padua

  Doe, Saint, Credit

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• This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

  Janet Malcolm

  Mother, Art, Armed Robbery

  Janet Malcolm (2013). “The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes”, p.165, Vintage

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• When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Mean, Government, Doe

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• One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Mean, Evil, Politics

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• Copying is not theft. Because when you steal something it means the other person doesn't have it anymore.

  Lexi Alexander

  Mean, Copying, Stealing

  Source: piratetimes.net

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• For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Freedom, Men, Law

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• Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Character, Native American

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1118, Delphi Classics

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• T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

  Robert Browning

  Kindness, Thieves, Lasts

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.145, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I believe that the levels of taxation advocated by liberals render those taxes a veiled form of theft. 'Give me more than half of your honestly earned money or you will be arrested' is legalized thievery.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Giving, Taxation

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• There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Taxation, Fairness

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• A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

  James Lee Burke

  Lying, Stealing, Resent

  James Lee Burke (2007). “Pegasus Descending: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!

  Nick Simmons

  People, Style, May

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• Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

  Melissa Bean

  Identity, Growing, Crime

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