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• Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Home, Men, Hands

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• The thief who received the kingdom of heaven, though not as the reward of virtue, is a true witness to the fact that salvation is ours through the grace and mercy of God.

  John Cassian

  Humility, Mercy Of God, Grace And Mercy

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• Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

  John Hagee

  Atheist, Want, Christ

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• The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

  Josh Billings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.208

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• Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Prayer, Kingdoms

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Technology, Trying, Fundamentals

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• Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicidal, Long, Wanted

  Anne Sexton, “Sylvia's Death”

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• Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

  William Penn

  Educational, Flattery, Disguise

  Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.124

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• You started like a saint and now you've finished like a thief

  Stephen Kellogg

  Break Up, Ex Boyfriend, Saint

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• Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I`m not the thief who grabs your purse. I`m not the guy who jacks your car. I`m not down with the people who steal and hurt others. I`m just a brother who fight back.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hurt, Brother, Fighting

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• If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Generosity, Charity

  Dante Alighieri (1879). “The 'De Monarchia' of Dante”

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• Here we are told that Christ really lives in me, if I have accepted Christ as my Savior. In other words, we have the words of Jesus to the thief of the cross, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise.' Christ can say, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise,' and mean it. To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality. But at the same time, Christ, the same Christ who gives the promise just as definitely, that when I have accepted Christ as my savior, he lives in me.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Mean

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• Hale, stop it.” Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. “You are many things, but stupid isn't one of them.” “I'm too close.” “You don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off.” “It makes me a bad thief.” “It makes you a good person.

  Ally Carter

  Stupid, Caring, Emotional

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
  Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.

  John Updike

  Time, Love Life, Stuff

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• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

  John Milton

  Time, Years, Wings

  'Sonnet' 7 'How soon hath time' (1645)

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• The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

  Laozi

  Government, Law, People

  Laozi (1997). “Tao Te Ching”, p.17, Wordsworth Editions

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• The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hate, Religion, Church

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.100, Library of Alexandria

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• Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Christian, Regret, Two

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• Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• Time is the thief you cannot banish.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Aging

  Phyllis McGinley, “Sunday Poetry: Ballade Of Lost Objects”

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• In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kings, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• First of all I would make about 80% of the people law-abiding citizens again. The policy which is carried out now makes every entrepreneur and businessman a thief against his own will.

  Alexander Lebed

  Law, People, Entrepreneur

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• I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Stars, Gambling

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• Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Girl, Kings, Writing

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• If you say, "Would there were no wine" because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, "Would there were no steel," because of the murderers, "Would there were no night," because of the thieves, "Would there were no light," because of the informers, and "Would there were no women," because of adultery.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  War, Wine, Night

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