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• There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.

  Henry George

  Money, Work, Way

  "Social Problems".

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• Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Character, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.

  James Lee Burke

  People, Waste, Clock

  James Lee Burke (2010). “Heaven's Prisoners”, p.156, Hachette UK

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• Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

  George Carlin

  Death, Suicide, Stupid

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• The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred and error.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Evil

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• Arson, property destruction, burglary, and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.

  Alex Pacheco

  Animal, Arson, Causes

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• Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Inspirational, Music, Dream

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

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• They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

  John Sandford

  Ugly, Crime, Turns

  "In 'Mad River,' A Friendly Cop Tackles Rural Crime". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, krvs.org. September 23, 2012.

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• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  Imelda Marcos

  Fighting, Self, Survival

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

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• The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.

  Xi Jinping

  Government, Practice, Support

  "Does China's government hack US companies to steal secrets?" by Mark Ward, www.bbc.com. September 23, 2015.

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• The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Names, Reform, Heritage

  Interview with Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February 2003.

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• 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Behavior, Antisocial, Scorn

  "Nolan Bushnell Explains Further About 'Trash'y Games" by Susan Arendt, www.wired.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Once a book falls into our possession, it is ours, the same way children lay their claim: 'That's my book.' As if it were organically part of them. That must be why we have so much trouble returning borrowed books. It's not exactly theft (of course not, we're not thieves, what are you implying?); it's simply a slippage in ownership or, better still, a transfer of substance. That which belonged to someone else becomes mine when I look at it. And if I like what I read, naturally I'll have difficulty giving it back.

  Daniel Pennac

  Children, Book, Fall

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• There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Lying, Sin

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• Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.

  Eric Foner

  Fruit, Slavery, Way

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund, doing favors for oppressive regimes and many others in exchange for cash. Then when she left, she made $21.6 million giving speeches to Wall Street banks and other special interests in less than two years - secret speeches that she does not want to reveal to the public. Lobbyists, CEOs, and foreign governments totally own her, and that will never change if she ever became president.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Two, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Modern authoritarianism, as it's growing inside Europe and now coming to the United States, rests much more on the use of power to protect the guilty than to persecute the innocent. And its motive is not crazy totalitarian utopianism, it's motive is repressive kleptocracy. To steal and to use the powers of the state to protect theft.

  David Frum

  Crazy, Europe, United States

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• We rebuilt China.The money they took out of the United States is the greatest theft in the history of our country. The money they've taken out, the jobs they've taken out, the base.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Taken

  Source: www.economist.com

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• One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

  George Carlin

  Giving, Use, Philosopher

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, Pride

  William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton (1860). “The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems”, p.775

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• If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Rights, Two

  Lysander Spooner (1847). “The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second”, p.8

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• Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

  Jaron Lanier

  One Day, Might, Privacy

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• According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Health, Rights, Years

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• In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

  Christopher McDougall

  Children, War, Teenager

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.14, Profile Books

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