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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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• I often call Daptone the Motown and Stax of today. But in some ways it's different. At Motown, a lot of the musicians didn't get recognized, music got stolen, and people didn't get paid. Or the label would just throw them a pinch of money for their songs. That is one thing we're not doing. Anything anyone writes here, we get a percentage.

  Sharon Jones

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• That was [Joel] Benenson. "We're talking about this election, Kellyanne [Conway]." See, they're in permanent campaign mode, and they haven't come to grips with the fact that they lost. It was stolen from them, or the alt-right did something or the white supremacists came up and did something. They didn't lose.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Talking, White, Facts

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lying, Men, Office

  "Charting the Candidates '72" by Ronald Van Doren, 1972.

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

  Hermann Hesse

  Lonely, Men, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

  Steven Rattner

  Children, Thanks, Social

  "Stop Stealing From Our Kids" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

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• Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

  Pope Francis

  Economic Inequality, Tables, Remember

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.31, Orbis Books

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