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• The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.

  Thomas Huxley

  Mankind, Murderer, Philanthropist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2004). “Evolution And Ethics”, p.87, 1st World Publishing

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• Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

  Rex Harrison

  Tomorrow, Pleasure

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• All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

  Nina Bawden

  Writing, Tools, Theft

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• Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Stupid, Race, Despair

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.946, Delphi Classics

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• The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

  William Shakespeare

  Passing On, Two, Justice

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 17

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• An art thief is a man who takes pictures.

  George Carlin

  Art, Humorous, Men

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.

  Rod Parsley

  Healing, Tradition, Divine

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• One of the greatest of poets, Coleridge was one of the wisest of men, and it was not for nothing that he read us this parable. Let us have a little less of "hands across the sea," and a little more of that elemental distrust that is the security of nations. War loves to come like a thief in the night; professions of eternal amity provide the night.

  Ambrose Bierce

  War, Night, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.232, 谷月社

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• Whatever life after death is, being with Christ which is far better, being in Paradise like the thief, etc, the many rooms where we go immediately... that is the temporary place. The ultimate life after life after death is the resurrection in God's new world.

  N. T. Wright

  Rooms, Etc, World

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Golden, Tombs

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• Anywhere in the world if you see a president holding his chair tightly, that man is either a thief or a tyrant, and even worse than this, he is both!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Tyrants, President

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• A thief is like a person who has been dead from the start.

  Rashi

  Persons, Has Beens

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• I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

  Wendell Pierce

  Jobs, Night, Next Day

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.

  Margaret Mead

  Running, Children, Fall

  "Balinese Character". Book by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, 1942.

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• The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Escaping, Law, Chance

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.65, M.E. Sharpe

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• What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.

  Frank Loesser

  New York, Thinking, Miracle

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• It wasn't my childhood fantasy to work with Truffaut or be in obscure films. I like Midnight Run better than I like The Bicycle Thief. It was films like Die Hard and Bladerunner that made me want to be an actor.

  Ben Affleck

  Running, Childhood, Midnight

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• The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Cutting, Sea

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• Government is a gang of thieves writ large.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Gang

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• All my cousins steal things. Theyre just a bunch of thieves. My whole family is like that. You put something down for a second, and they steal it. You never see it again.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Cousin, Stealing, Whole Family

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• Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

  Edward Young

  Procrastination, Years, Literature

  Edward Young, George Gilfillan (1853). “Night Thoughts”, p.17

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• Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.

  Meyer Lansky

  People, Worry, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like thieves. Some of my best friends are thieves. Why, just last week we had the president of the bank over for dinner.

  W. C. Fields

  President, My Best Friend, Dinner

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• If you take pictures does that make you an art thief?

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Art, Doe

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• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

  Peire Cardenal

  Horse, Men, Justice

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