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Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.

—Adrian Mitchell

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Nobody tries to steal your troubles, and no one can take your good deeds.

—Yiddish folk saying

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I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

—Tom Clark

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The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system.

—Robert Ingersoll

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Good lawyers know the law; great lawyers know the judge.

—Unknown

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As one reads history . . . one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

—Oscar Wilde

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Questioned by the British television interviewer David Frost about his approval of a plan of action that entailed such criminal ingredients as burglary and the opening of other people's mail, Richard Nixon replied, "Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.

—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other 2 percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

—Lily Tomlin

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I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

—John Wayne

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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

—Robert Orben

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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

—Louis D. Brandeis

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What a shame. If you had stolen a railroad, they would have made you a senator.

—Mother Jones, to a man imprisoned for having stolen a pair of shoes

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White criminals commit the biggest crimes. A brother might rob a bank. A white man will rob a pension fund. The brother is going to get ten to fifteen years because he had a gun. The white guy will get a Congressional hearing because he had a job and a nice suit.

—Wanda Sykes

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It's universally wrong to steal from your neighbor, but once you get beyond this one-to-one level and pit the individual against the multinational conglomerate, the federal bureaucracy, . . . or the utility company, it becomes strictly a value judgment to decide who exactly is stealing from whom. One person's crime is another person's profit.

—Abbie Hoffman

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That is mine which none can steal from me.

—Henry David Thoreau

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