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But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.

Harry S. Truman

War, Men, Two

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... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Couple, Hands, People

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Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

Kevin Rooney

Ties, Addiction, Mexican

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To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.

Paul Krugman

Sacrifice, Past, Skills

"Playboy Interview: Paul Krugman". Interview with Jonathan Tasini, www.playboy.com. February 15, 2012.

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Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.

Billy the Kid

Kings, Tombstone, Boys

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In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.

Roy Chapman Andrews

Dog, Years, Whales

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Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Will Rogers

Politics, Voters, Politician

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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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Successful leaders develop effective strategies for maintaining their boundaries. ... Most time bandits don't know any better. And being a time bandit is a matter of context. One person's time bandit is another person's pleasant diversion. ... Instead of gritting our teeth to be polite and resenting the time bandit for holding us up, the best choice is to be honest. We cannot expect another person to honor our needs unless we affirm them ourselves.

Diane Dreher

Leadership, Time, Successful

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I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that.

Burt Reynolds

Thinking, People, Starting Over

Source: www.caranddriver.com

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Smokey and the Bandit was the first picture [Hal Needham ] directed, and I knew he could handle it. I had just directed Gator, and he saw my style and used that as a pattern.

Burt Reynolds

Style, Patterns, Saws

Source: www.caranddriver.com

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The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law.

Harold Pinter

Law, Iraq, Invasion

Harold Pinter (2015). “Death etc.”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out
these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of
his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be
shot on the spot.

Vladimir Lenin

Cards, Bread, Action

"Meeting of the Presidium of the Petrograd Soviet With Delegates From the Food Supply Organisations (January 27, 1918)". Krasnaya Letopis No. 1, 1924. Collected Works, Volume 26, p. 501, www.marx2mao.com.

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Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.

L. Neil Smith

Fighting, Hunting, Government

"The Unnecessary Depression". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 01, 2009.

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Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Country, Hair, Doors

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You might be a redneck if you have refused to watch the Academy Awards since Smokey and the Bandit was snubbed for best picture.

Jeff Foxworthy

Redneck, Awards, Watches

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There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

Federico Fellini

Photography, Broken, Cameras

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Two weeks after having Bandit I was in a recording studio. I hadnt yet really fully understood what being a dad was and, man, I was exhausted. But she is 17 months now. Shes running, shes been running for a long time. Shes inspired me a great deal for the record. She even goes Wow Daddy! when I play to her.

Gerard Way

Running, Dad, Men

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In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

Herman Melville

Death, Men, Childhood

Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.347

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He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

Terry Pratchett

Book, Imagination, Interesting

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Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one's mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

Anton Chekhov

Children, Angel, Firsts

Letter to his brother, A.P. Chekhov, January 2, 1889.

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Trans Am sales went up 70 percent after Smokey and the Bandit, and I was promised a free car every year for life by the Pontiac president.

Burt Reynolds

Years, Car, President

Source: www.caranddriver.com

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Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.

Harold Covington

Cynical, Holocaust, Assassins

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We got Sally Field onboard [in Smokey and the Bandit] and it changed the entire dynamic. About a third of the way into filming, I was in the car with Sally and there was this little moment where we kind of looked at each other, and then we both turned and looked over at Hal [Needham]. He gave us a thumbs up and said, "Yeah!" And we kind of knew there was some magic going on.

Burt Reynolds

Thumbs Up, Car, Magic

Source: www.caranddriver.com

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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld Lang Syne' are good, but the music is an old air, the rudiments of the modern tune of that name. ... Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ... Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure thrill the deepest notes of woe. ... Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Robert Burns

Cutting, Men, Scotch

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