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• Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

  Dean Koontz

  Doors, Waiting, Soul

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.1597, Bantam

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• The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives. Perhaps the reason you've not yet been able to forgive yourself is that you're still invested in your self-loathing. Perhaps not forgiving yourself is the flip side of your stealing-this-now cycle. Would you be a better or worse person if you forgave yourself for the bad things you did? If you perpetually condemn yourself for being a liar and a thief, does that make you good?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, Self, Order

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus advice Column #68: The bad things you did". therumpus.net. March 24, 2011.

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• Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Yield, Gold

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.56, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

  Mario Cuomo

  Smart, Law, Jail

  NBC TV, August 12, 1986.

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• We’re a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.

  Scott Lynch

  Believe, Hard Work, Bullshit

  Scott Lynch (2008). “The Lies of Locke Lamora: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book One”, p.25, Hachette UK

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• Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Two, Trying

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• Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

  Isabel Allende

  Law, Land, Greed

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• Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

  Ally Carter

  World, Stealing

  Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Fit, Apparel

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 4, sc. 2, l. [46]

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• A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Simple, Men

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 4, sc. 6, l. [154]

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• Indecision is the greatest thief of opportunity.

  Jim Rohn

  Opportunity, Indecision

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• Comparison is the thief of all joy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Joy, Comparison

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• 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Liars, Lying, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Abandon cleverness, discard profit, and thieves and robbers will disappear.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Disappear, Profit

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• Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Hate, Anger

  Aristotle (1924). “The Works of Aristotle”

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• Vans are the vehicles of murderers. Serial Killers. Rapists. Thieves. Nothing good ever happens in a van. Police should be allowed to arrest van drivers without cause. The van is the cause, asshole.

  Shalom Auslander

  Police, Serial Killer, Killers

  Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.142, Penguin

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• It is when Pirates count their booty that they become mere thieves.

  William Bolitho

  Pirate, Booty, Mere

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• There's no thief like a bad movie.

  Sam Ewing

  Cinema, Bad Movies

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• One percent of people will always be honest and never steal," the locksmith said. "Another one percent will always be dishonest and always try to pick your lock and steal your television. And the rest will be honest as long as the conditions are right - but if they are tempted enough, they'll be dishonest too. Locks won't protect you from the thieves, who can get in your house if they really want to. They will only protect you from the mostly honest people who might be tempted to try your door if it had no lock".

  Dan Ariely

  Doors, Long, People

  Dan Ariely (2012). “The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Consumerism, Goods

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The poison affects us all. No one escapes. Therefore let us be happy while we are happy. Let us be kind, generous, affectionate and good. It is necessary and not at all shameful to take pleasure in the little world.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Running, Dog, Fall

  "Fictional character: Ekdahlska huset - Gustav Adolf Ekdahl". "Fanny and Alexander", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.

  Simone Weil

  God, Views, Giving

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• The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Fate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.3, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Making a programme that appears to condone a positive stereotype actually enforces all the negative ones as well. It says that they all have a valid point. To assert that Americans are naive, Germans humourless and the French arrogant is one thing: they're big enough to take it. But to say that there's a conspiracy of Jewish bankers, that gypsies are thieves, Pakistanis are dirty and refugees are muggers is something quite else.

  A. A. Gill

  Dirty, Bankers, Negative

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• Punctuality is the thief of time

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Work, Lying

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, Wordsworth Editions

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