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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Twilight, Games, Play

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which all religions agree (for all forbid us to steal, murder, plunder, or bear false witness), and that we should not intermeddle with the particular dogmas in which all religions differ, and which are totally unconnected with morality.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Reading, Reflection, Bears

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.281, Cambridge University Press

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• When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Girl, Country, Children

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.12

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

  Bayard Taylor

  Love, Summer, Spring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.43

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• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  Saint Augustine

  Government, Justice, Mind

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• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Summer, Country, Flower

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• Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  My Friends, Ifs

  Citizenship in a Republic - The Man in the Arena, delivered 23 April 1910, Le Sorbonne, University of Paris

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.

  Rose Macaulay

  Lying, Joy, Selfishness

  "The Towers of Trebizond". Book by Rose Macaulay, 1956.

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• It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Men, World, Seems

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”

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• Whenever possible, steal code.

  Tom Duff

  Code

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• If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

  Werner Herzog

  Ambition, Labs, Cameras

  "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe". Documentary, 1980.

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• There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

  Maynard Webb

  Zero, Giving Up, Hard Work

  "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Don’t let anyone steal your milk.

  Ryan Blair

  Confidence, Follow Your Heart, Milk

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• When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

  Barack Obama

  Doors, Arson, Building

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Abe of Japan in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 28, 2015.

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• Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

  Calvin Jillson

  Texas, Helping, Election

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• You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

  Barbara Corcoran

  Share, Limelight

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• I dont care if youre Britney freakin Spears, nobody is going to steal my spotlight!

  Trish Stratus

  I Dont Care, Spotlight, Spears

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• If something is stolen from you, don't go to the police. They're not interested. Don't go to a psychologist either, because he's interested in only one thing: that it was really you who did the stealing.

  Karl Kraus

  Police, Psychologist, Stolen

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sea, Victory, Ears

  Hartley Coleridge (1851). “Poems by Hartley Coleridge”, p.310

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• Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Secret, Vices

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

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• And if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.

  DeForest Soaries

  Country, America, Election

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• It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.

  Derek R. Audette

  Art, Creating, Thieves

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• The morning steals upon the night,
  Melting the darkness.

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Night, Darkness

  William Shakespeare, Aaron Augustus MORGAN (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare, as Exhibited in His Works. By the Rev. A. A. Morgan”, p.162

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