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The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
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stealing
theft
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William Shakespeare |
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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.
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good-name
libel
reputation
shakespeare
slander
society
standing
theft
value
values
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William Shakespeare |
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And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.
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america
cruelty
delusions
native-americans
race-relations
slavery
theft
united-states
united-states-of-america
us
usa
war
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Colson Whitehead |
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He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.
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libraries
theft
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Terry Pratchett |
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If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
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darwinism
evolution
infidelity
macro-evolution
macroevolution
morality
natural-selection
social-darwinism
stealing
survival-of-the-fittest
theft
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Robert J. Sawyer |
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Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.
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killing
stealing
theft
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Sharon Kay Penman |
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A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate.
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capitalism
commerce
goods
property
theft
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G.K. Chesterton |
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"Casy said, "Ol' Tom's house can't be more'n a mile from here. Ain't she over that third rise?" Sure," said Joad. "Less somebody stole it, like Pa stole it." Your pa stole it?" Sure, got it a mile an' a half east of here an' drug it. Was a family livin' there, an' they moved away. Grampa an' Pa an' my brother Noah like to took the whole house, but she wouldn't come. They only got part of her. That's why she looks so funny on one end. They cut her in two an' drug her over with twelve head of horses and two mules. They was goin' back for the other half an' stick her together again, but before they got there Wink Manley come with his boys and stole the other half. Pa an' Grampa was pretty sore, but a little later them an' Wink got drunk together an' laughed their heads off about it. Wink, he says his house is a stud, an' if we'll bring our'n over an' breed 'em we'll maybe get a litter of crap houses. Wink was a great ol' fella when he was drunk. After that him an' Pa an' Grampa was friends. Got drunk together ever' chance they got."
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house
jokes
theft
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John Steinbeck |
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This whole country's stolen.
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theft
usa
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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We were two of a kind, the only difference being that he was reverential before all the traditional word magic, and I would steal it if I could. He came to the tradition as a pilgrim, I as a pickpocket.
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pilgrim
reverence
theft
tradition
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Wallace Stegner |
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"Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."
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insult
perspective
technology
theft
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Walter Isaacson |
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It was a dark story.
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dark
death
kidnapping
marriage
ominous
pirate
short
theft
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Joseph Conrad |
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Vassals of an outdated ideology unrelated to the real world, they can, when questioned on this issue, only mumble neoliberal mantras that have delivered the world economic stagnation, rising inequality and global environmental crisis
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australian-government
copyright
neoliberalism
plagiarism
theft
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Richard Flanagan |
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Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.
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bookstores
reading
theft
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Mark Helprin |
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If the choice is between being held up at gunpoint or holding the gun, only a madman would choose to hand over his wallet rather than fill it with someone else's cash.
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stealing
theft
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