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• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  James Brown

  Song, War, Rapper

  "Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, June 12, 2006.

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• The vestiges of pagan religion in Christian symbology are undeniable. Egyptian sun disks became the halos ... The pre-Christian God Mithras ... had his birthday celebrated on December 25 ... Even Christianity's weekly holy day was stolen from the pagans ... Christianity honored the Jewish Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it to coincide with the pagans' veneration of the day of the sun ... To this day, most churchgoers attend services on Sunday morning with no idea that they are there on account of the pagan sun god's weekly tribute- Sunday.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Morning, Sunday

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• Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

  Justin Kaplan

  Way, Sun, Authority

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• ...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Balance, Trying

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• Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Government, Two

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• If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Self Worth, Trying

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• I'm a great thief. I like to lift stuff and play it better. The real trick is taking whatever you've stolen and trying to do something different with it.

  Carl Palmer

  Real, Play, Trying

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• Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Teacher, Regret

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.125, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz have been stolen. The thief is described as being armed and fabulous.

  David Letterman

  Thieves, Rubies, Wizards

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• I'm totally normal in every respect, but I have this one quirk - I can't give out a number without laughing. It's a problem when I'm giving my credit card number over the phone because they always think: 'He must have just stolen it.'

  Emo Philips

  Thinking, Phones, Numbers

  "Emo Philips" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• If you have two coats you have stolen one. We have no right to have more than we need when someone else has less than they need.

  Shane Claiborne

  Two, Needs, Coats

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.

  David Gray

  Kissing, Somewhere Else, Want

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• I don't think I've ever stolen anything.

  Ira Glass

  Thinking

  "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 02, 2016.

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• What have I stolen? Probably money as a kid.

  Cameron Esposito

  Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is the issue of security. Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to secure our borders and enforce our laws like they have to be enforced.

  Donald Trump

  Law, Issues, Borders

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes only? Could anything be more un-American than the Second Commandment's warning that "I Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."? Not even the Common Law would have hung a man because his grandfather had stolen a horse!

  Frank Zindler

  Horse, Children, Father

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• The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.

  Andrew Joseph Galambos

  Taken, Firsts, Wealth

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• We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us. We have to stop our companies from leaving the United States and, with it, firing all of their people.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, People, Leaving

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs

  "Presidential debate transcript: Trump and Clinton, verbatim" by Evan Vucci and Julio Cortez, www.macleans.ca. September 26, 2016.

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• Just consider some of these recent hacks, JPMorgan Chase, massive bank, had 73 million e-mails stolen.

  Donald Trump

  Mail, Hacks, Massive

  Source: time.com

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• I'm old enough, I remember when Richard Nixon had the election stolen in 1960. And no serious historian doubts that Illinois and Texas were stolen.

  Newt Gingrich

  Texas, Illinois, Doubt

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Everything all of us do is stolen from somebody.

  John Calipari

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• From Hillary Clinton, in her own double-talking words, and from others, we understand that our children have been stolen from us by the state and by the psychiatric establishment.

  Michael Savage

  Children, Talking, Clinton

  Source: whale.to

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• Your wallet will be stolen, you'll get fat, slip on the bathroom tiles of a foreign hotel and crack your hip.

  Ellen Bass

  Cracks, Tiles, Hips

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I've never stolen anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I once accidentally took a gift card from a store in a mall. I was carrying it around to show my mom because I thought it was funny, and I forgot to show it to her and left the store carrying it. I had a complete nervous breakdown, like, 20 minutes later and went back to the store in tears. So that's where I stand in terms of my ability to steal something.

  Zoe Kazan

  Mom, Tears, Cards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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