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• The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.

  Jean Little

  Funny, Dog, Coffee

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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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• Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Children, Ems, May

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.177

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• Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

  Matthew Henry

  Water, Enemy, Puddles

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.819

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When everyone else is more comfortable remaining voiceless,
  Rather than fighting for humans that have had their rights stolen,
  I might not be the same, but that's not important.
  No freedom 'til we're equal, damn right I support it.

  Macklemore

  Fighting, Rights, Support

  Song: Same Love

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• In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Garden, Done, Littles

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• The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesses that do not come into existence, and the bright future that is stolen from us. The State has looted us just as surely as a robber who enters our home at night and steals all that we love.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• Stolen sweets are best.

  Colley Cibber

  Sweet

  'The Rival Fools' (1709) act 1, sc. 1

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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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• Take one fresh and tender kiss
  Add one stolen night of bliss
  One girl, one boy, some grief,
  some joy Memories are made of this.

  Johnny Cash

  Girl, Memories, Grief

  Song: Memories Are Made Of This, Album: Unchained, 1996

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• Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Men, Origin Of Life, Judging

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.

  John Granger

  Love, Loyalty, Sacrifice

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• Let no one imagine that he will lose anything of human dignity by this voluntary sell-out of his all to his God. He does not by this degrade himself as a man; rather he finds his right place of high honor as one made in the image of his Creator. His deep disgrace lay in his moral derangement, his unnatural usurpation of the place of God. His honor will be proved by restoring again that stolen throne. In exalting God over all, he finds his own highest honor upheld.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Honor, Doe

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• We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear that keeps you chained to your desk, staring at your screen, does not serve your spirit. Lunch is a time to forget about being sensible, practical, efficient. A proper lunch should be spiritually as well as physically nourishing. Cosy, convivial, a treat; lunch is for loafers.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Lunch, Doe, Needs

  Tom Hodgkinson (2007). “How to be Idle”, p.68, Penguin UK

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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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• 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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