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• Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.

  Dave Barry

  Men, Hair, People

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Is Not Making This Up”, p.244, Ballantine Books

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• Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hurt, Pain, Cutting

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• I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Sorry, Rip, Heart

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• If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Hate, Who I Am, Names

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• Would I serve you or (Prince) Jon stolen goods? he asked. "No, don't answer me.

  Tamora Pierce

  Answers, Goods

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• My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart.

  Michelle Moran

  Heart, Unique, Love Is

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• A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place The terrorist doesn't know that one of these kids has bugged every room in her house, made copies of all her computer files and stolen her address book. The kid works for CHERUB CHERUB agents are aged between 10 and 17. They live in the real world, slipping under adult radar and getting information that sends criminals and terrorists to jail.

  Robert Muchamore

  Running, Children, Real

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• I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments and cups of coffee. Stirring clockwise to conjure. Widdershins to banish. There’s never enough time, and rarely enough caffeine, but I make do with what I have. Besides, cauldrons and pointy hats are overrated. Sometimes I see other customers practicing. Pouring their cream and sugar with studied intent. Stirring with purpose. I add an extra spoonful of sugar to my own coffee for them, to make all of our enchantments sweeter.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Coffee, Circles, Enough Time

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• All told, she owned fourteen books, but she saw her story as being made up predominantly of ten of them. Of those ten, six were stolen, one showed up at the kitchen table, two were made for her by a hidden Jew, and one was delivered by a soft, yellow-dressed afternoon.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Two, Yellow

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• Hearts can never be stolen, Cy. They can only be given.” – Ren

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Given

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• And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow.

  Nick Cave

  Sorrow, Tears, Safe

  Song: Do You Love Me?

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• The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Evil, Language

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”, p.38, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for the horizon over the hills. That's why humans are so interesting.

  Yana Toboso

  Struggle, People, Interesting

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• Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  God, Christian, Respect

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.150, SCM Press

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• The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

  Neil Armstrong

  Men, Important, Principles

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• It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him. This is my story. A letter from nowhere.

  Lucy Christopher

  Taken, Airports, Stories

  "Storm-Wake". Book by Lucy Christopher, April 5, 2018.

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• The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

  Horace

  Laughter, Colour, Provoking

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• Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Overcoming, Allies

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.265

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• Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

  Kanye West

  Luxury, Oxford University, People

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• This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

  Lowkey

  War, Boys, Thinking

  Song: Long Live Palestine, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle

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• If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.

  William Henry Maule

  Wine, Mean, Men

  Reg. v. Burton, Dearsly's C. C. 284, 1854.

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• For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Men, World

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• Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for.

  Bill Gates

  Strong, Owners, Paid

  "Bill Gates on … the Competition". Interview with Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, www.wsj.com. June 19, 2006.

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• The breath of springtime at this twilight hour
  Comes through the gathering glooms,
  And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower
  Into my silent rooms.

  William C. Bryant

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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• I'm not an original composer. The tunes are not stolen from other tunes necessarily except in a few cases, but they're in the style of songs that I grew up with.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Style, Tunes

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. July 8, 2006.

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