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• Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Purpose, Morality, Humanism

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• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse. There's no surer justice in the world than that which makes the rich thief hang the poor one.

  Peire Cardenal

  Horse, Men, Justice

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• Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Sleep, Shopping, Identity

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• She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as you, September. More, no doubt. And I know a secret you do not: I am not the villain. I am no dark lord. I am the princess in this tale. I am the maiden, with her kingdom stolen away. And how may a princess remain safe and protected through centuries, no matter who may assail her? She sleeps. For a hundred years, for a thousand. Until her enemies have all perished and the sun rises over her perfect, innocent face once more.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Princess, Sleep, Dark

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• You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

  William Goldman

  Princess, Thinking, Trying

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.112, A&C Black

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• I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thieves, Glances, Felt

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.49, Random House

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• It was as if nothing quite erased the initial shock of being kissed by someone who was not hers, a kiss that was stolen, claimed from her flippantly, a kiss so abrasively illicit that she seemed to deserve it, as though she was not worth much to begin with.

  Suki Kim

  Love, Dream, Kissing

  Suki Kim (2004). “The Interpreter: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Kissing

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• If some beggar steals a bridle he'll be hung by a man who's stolen a horse.

  Peire Cardenal

  Funny, Horse, Humor

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• I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

  David Levithan

  Simple, Night, Forgotten

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith

  Christine Feehan

  Hero, Men, Giving

  Christine Feehan (2011). “Spirit Bound”, p.45, Penguin

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• Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

  George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

  Horse, Men, Justice

  c.1687 Political Thoughts and Reflections,'Of Punishment'.

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• When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances and then candid ones, they had to smile. They were uncommonly proud. For the first time they had done something out of Love.

  Patrick Süskind

  Done, Proud, Firsts

  Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.236, Penguin UK

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• Getting hold of illegal weapons is so easy that gun laws would not stop anyone who really wanted to kill. The gun used by Martin Bryant in Port Arthur was stolen and he had no licence. Gun laws would not have stopped that, but the reason such laws are being introduced all over the world is to prevent the population from defending themselves when the order goes out to round up those who are challenging the Agenda.

  David Icke

  Gun, Order, Law

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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• Soon, the whole world would be searching for her -Linh Cinder. A deformed cyborg with a missing foot. A Lunar with a stolen identity. A mechanic with no one to run to, nowhere to go. But they will be looking for a ghost.

  Marissa Meyer

  Running, Feet, Missing

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• I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Wrestling

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• Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

  Charles Churchill

  Purses, Firsts, Gypsy

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.134, London : W. Pickering

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• There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?

  Nahum Goldmann

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

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• I used to wear my mom's Wayfarers. When the people of Ray Ban noticed that, they sent me a box full of sunglasses, two and a half years ago. Now they're all gone. They've disappeared during trips, many were also stolen from me, the rest I lost again and again. Now I have only one pair left.

  Robert Pattinson

  Life, Mom, Years

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• It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.

  Ayn Rand

  Law, Purpose, Return

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.443, Hamilton Books

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• Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger to the sky... from the tip of this finger sprang a small blue spark that exploded like a tiny firework. “I know magic can be stolen,” said Artemis. “Because I stole some myself.

  Eoin Colfer

  Blue, Sky, Magic

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• My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

  Christopher Paolini

  Fear, Mind, Sanctuary

  "Eragon (Inheritance Cycle, Book 1)". Book by Christopher Paolini, 2002.

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• He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

  William Shakespeare

  Crime, Crime And Criminals, Knows

  William Shakespeare (1835). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary”, p.622

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• The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

  Danny Glover

  Native American, Gun, Land

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• When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.

  Alice Hoffman

  Girl, Together, Different

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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