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• The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Hands, Would Be, Privilege

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• Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Running, Stars

  W. B. Yeats, “The Young Man's Song”

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• It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

  Al Capone

  Guy, Racket

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• We can't love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.

  John Green

  Heart, Neighbor, Know How

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Mind, Blunt

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1131, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

  Patrick deWitt

  Crazy, Dark, Thinking

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.9, Granta Books

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• Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

  Maya Angelou

  Stars, Wall, Ocean

  "Learning From Maya" by Sue Shanahan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 4, 2014.

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• Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

  Ray Davies

  Money, Tired, Men

  Song: Money And Corruption / I Am Your Man

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• From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

  Immanuel Kant

  Truth, Honesty, Fear

  "Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" by Immanuel Kant, (Proposition 6), 1784.

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• I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

  Tim Daly

  Focus, Acting, Noses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

  Daphne Guinness

  Eye, Makeup, Mirrors

  "Daphne Guinness Holds Court at FIT". Interview with Rosemary Feitelberg, wwd.com. November 4, 2011.

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• It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.

  Ludacris

  Cop, Manipulate

  "Akon, Ludacris Say Rick Ross Should Brush Off Rumors Of Prison-Guard Past" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Strong, Different Nationalities, People

  "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Talks THE THING and BULLET TO THE HEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

  William Blake

  Engineering, Genius, Improvement

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• The world is poisoned with erroneous theories, and needs to be taught sane doctrines, but it is difficult to straighten what has become crooked.

  Frances Xavier Cabrini

  Doctrine, Needs, World

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• Death lays his icy hand on kings.

  James Shirley

  Death, Kings, Hands

  'The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses' (1659) act 1, sc. 3

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• I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Eye, Voice, Sound

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• I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!

  Emma Roberts

  Character, Giving, Teeth

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• The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Honest, Individual, Contrary

  Statement on October 29, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 141, 1962.

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• Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue can alone lead to a pure and lasting fame and the blessings of posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Integrity, Blessing, May

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.41, Рипол Классик

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• We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

  J. Cole

  Dream, Looks, Ems

  Song: Crooked Smile, Album: Born Sinner, 2013

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• A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Ideas, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

  Zig Ziglar

  Hard Work, People, Coaching

  Zig Ziglar (1977). “See You at the Top”

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• Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Truth, Light, Lines

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Goes On, Lists, Lawyer

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