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• Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

  Richard Flanagan

  Art, Lying, Writing

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• She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!".

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Humor, Identity

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• From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.

  Hillary Clinton

  History, Movement, Development

  "Clinton warns of 'uncharted territory' in wake of Egypt unrest" by Jill Dougherty, edition.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, War, Destiny

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• To live
  On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
  Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
  Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
  This is to be a trickster; and to filch
  Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
  Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
  You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
  Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
  Plain folks call "Theft.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Mean, Men

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• After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.

  Ronald Reagan

  Leadership, Night, Ideas

  Remarks on the Occasion of 83rd Birthday Gala, delivered 3 February 1994

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• As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

  Dean Koontz

  Law, Play, Lines

  "Watchers". Book by Dean Koontz, 1987.

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• We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

  Epictetus

  Character, Effort, Tourism

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• Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Monsters, States

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• Someone said, and rightfully, that "property is theft'." There's no way a man can stand and tell me that he owns an apple tree. I just don't believe you. And so this pursuit of position and money and power, they are all wrapped up into one package that I think is crippling, debilitating and limiting. And unfortunately, people get sucked into it and then they've got you on the treadmill. You know: ''You've got to have a good job'' and "You've got to have a good education'' - which is another word for indoctrination. We're never going to rise above these limitations we've placed on ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• Like other forms of stealing, identity theft leaves the victim poor and feeling terribly violated.

  George W. Bush

  Feelings, Identity, Stealing

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

  Melissa Bean

  Fighting, Effort, Identity

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• It needs to said that Gerard Brennan's The Point is terrific. Scorchingly funny, black humour at its finest and the most inventive car theft ever!

  Arlene Hunt

  Car, Black, Needs

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• A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Gaps, Growing

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• Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft. When it came to crime prevention, Sergeant Colon found it safest to think big.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Bridges, Cities

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.52, Random House

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• The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Decay, Pieces

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.21, Oxford Paperbacks

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• What is government but theft by consent?

  Scott Lynch

  Government, Consent

  Scott Lynch (2013). “The Republic of Thieves”, p.110, Del Rey

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• Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

  Sara Teasdale

  Hours

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.11, Рипол Классик

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• The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

  Frank Abagnale

  People, Police, Identity

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• The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.

  T. S. Eliot

  Unique, Feelings, Immature

  "Essays on Elizabethan Drama".

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• This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

  Alfred Bester

  Adventure, Dying, Age

  Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

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• Time wasted is a theft from God.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Time, Wasting Time, Wasted Time

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• Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

  Vandana Shiva

  Patents, Use, Corporations

  "No Patents on Seeds, a Handbook for Activists: Why and How to Fight the Patent and Seed Act". Booklet, 2005.

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• As problems like identity theft become more prevalent, now more than ever, Americans need to take their financial health seriously - and this information is of the utmost importance.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Identity, Needs, Information

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• I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Political, Down And

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