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• You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

  Clive Anderson

  Successful, Poisoners, Train

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• Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Eye, Love Is

  Song: Dress Me Up As A Robber

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• There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

  Joe Mantegna

  Evil, Cop, Good And Evil

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• It's always fun to play cops and robbers.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Fun, Play, Cop

  "Timothy Olyphant Interview JUSTIFIED Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 10, 2011.

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• I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Sun, Robbing, Crude

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every dollar spent to punish a drug user or seller is a dollar that cannot be spent collecting restitution from a robber. Every hour spent investigating a drug user or seller is an hour that could have been used to find a missing child. Every trial held to prosecute a drug user or seller is court time that could be used to prosecute a rapist in a case that might otherwise have been plea bargained.

  Randy Barnett

  Children, Missing, Drug

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• There is a fundamental moral difference between a man who sees his self-interest in production and a man who sees it in robbery. The evil of a robber does not lie in the fact that he pursues his own interests, but in what he regards as to his own interest; not in the fact that he pursues his values, but in what he chose to value; not in the fact that he wants to live, but in the fact that he wants to live on a subhuman level.

  Ayn Rand

  Lying, Men, Self

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.81, Penguin

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• I’ve always liked to read about extremely wealthy people, especially when they are crazy (like Howard Hughes or Caligula.) While writing this book I did a lot of fun research on robber barons like Rockefeller and Morgan. But the most helpful stuff came from studying royal families and mad emperors. The best book I read was probably A King’s Own Story, which is the memoir of Edward VIII. Also, anything about Ivan the Terrible or Ted Turner.

  Simon Rich

  Kings, Fun, Crazy

  "Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview With Simon Rich". Interview with Maureen Miller, therumpus.net. June 9, 2010.

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• I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other.

  Eve Ensler

  Distance, Believe, Tasks

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.

  Daniel Defoe

  Race, Thieves, Ancestry

  Daniel Defoe (1843). “The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt”

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• "From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Justice, Politics, Economy

  Miguel de Cervantes (2000). “Don Quixote”, p.1073, Modern Library

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• Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman Empire... Rome became the mistress of the world, and introduced this order of monogamy wherever her sway was acknowledged. Thus this monogamic order of marriage, so esteemed by modern Christians as a hold sacrament and divine institution, is nothing but a system established by a set of robbers.

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Men, Order

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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• We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Soul, Vices

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

  Leon Bloy

  Prayer, Fire, Doors

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• Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.

  Anne Royall

  Men, Differences, People

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• The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Age, Modern, Masters

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• The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride; The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside; The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend; This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Strong, Pride, Doors

  Henry Van Dyke (1904). “Music, and Other Poems”

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• Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Thinking, Worry

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Unkindness to anything means an injustice to that thing. If I am unkind to you I do you an injustice, or wrong you in some way. On the other hand, if I try to assist you in every way that I can to make a better citizen and in every way to do my very best for you, I am kind to you. The above principles apply with equal force to the soil. The farmer whose soil produces less every year, is unkind to it in some way; that is, he is not doing by it what he should; he is robbing it of some substance it must have, and he becomes, therefore, a soil robber rather than a progressive farmer.

  George Washington Carver

  Mean, Hands, Years

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• When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Real, War, Hands

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• It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Castro, Pol Pot-and we're still being warned against the 'robber barons' of the 19th century. I don't know that Jay Gould or John D. Rockefeller ever killed anyone. The State has killed countless people, and yet we're always supposed to remain on guard against these 'greedy villains' of yesteryear.

  Joseph Sobran

  Real, People, John D Rockefeller

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• Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.

  William Hazlitt

  Humanity, Dens, Mets

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.518

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• Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

  O. Henry

  Love, Girl, Heart

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.408, Delphi Classics

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