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• The public doesn’t have to be hostile to the rich. ‘Robbing the rich to help the poor’ will only drive the rich away to other countries along with their money. As a matter of fact, their wealth should be respected. All wealth in China belongs to the country.

  Zong Qinghou

  Country, Matter, Facts

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• Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good Indian is a dead Indian' and could not have deprived them so easily of their lands and lands and lives. Robbing people of their proper names is often the first step in robbing them of their property, liberty, and life.

  Thomas Szasz

  Land, Names, White

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.99, Routledge

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• If you have been healed or saved or blessed through TBN and have not contributed to (the) station, you are robbing God and will lose your reward in heaven.

  Paul Crouch

  Blessed, Heaven, Rewards

  Praise the Lord, TBN, August 4, 1997.

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• One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Dope, Thinking

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• Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.

  Washington Irving

  Maturity, Animal, Progress

  Washington Irving (1834). “The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.100

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• As for those who protest that I am robbing people of the great comfort and consolation they gain from Christianity, I can only say that Christianity includes hell, eternal torture for the vast majority of humanity, for most of your relatives and friends. . . . If I could feel that I had robbed anybody of his faith in hell, I should not be ashamed or regretful.

  Rupert Hughes

  Relatives And Friends, People, Humanity

  Rupert Hughes (1940). “Why I Quit Going to Church: With Answers to Critics and Correspondents”

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• ...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Bartering, Trading, Jew

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• I was a bullfighter. I'd like to see the tradition continue. I'm sorry that Catalonia is robbing itself of a tradition that belongs in Catalonia.

  Bette Ford

  Sorry, Tradition, I'm Sorry

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  World, Sun, Sweetness

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• Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

  Giovanni Bisignani

  Oil, Cost, Gains

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• The Ottoman Empire . . . The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much - were mostly interested in robbing them - and they left them alone to run their own affairs . . . with a lot of local self determination.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Determination, Self

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• Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

  Edward Abbey

  Stress, Long, Car

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.49, University of Arizona Press

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

  N.D. Wilson

  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Church, Hats, Altars

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.233, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• He's most likely robbing the bank as a paycheck on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running.

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Winning, Years

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• Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

  Richelle Mead

  Mentor, Progress, Cradle

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.405, Penguin

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• Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Feels, Supposed To Be

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• I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Food, Character

  Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

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• If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Ice Cream

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.754, Modern Library

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• Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar-the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.

  Yann Martel

  Love, Blessing, Qualms About

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now.

  Maya Angelou

  Balance, World, Demand

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.173, Modern Library

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• Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

  Kim Jong Il

  Aids, Subjugation, Plunder

  "The madness of Kim Jong II" by Philip Gourevitch, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2003.

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• I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Action, Social, Commit

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• Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy. Contrariwise, if you are looking for shorter hours and longer vacations and early retirement, you are in the wrong job. Perhaps you need to take up bank robbing. Or geeking in a sideshow. Or even politics.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Retirement, Jobs, Hard Work

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Shoes, People, World

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