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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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Once one of the monks with Saint Francis asked if he might own just one book. Francis replied, "No, if you have a book, pretty soon you will need a bookshelf for your book. Then you will need a house for your bookshelf. After that you will need a lock on your door to protect your book from thieves breaking in and stealing it.

—Loretta Ross-Gotta

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The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point, he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief anymore. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.

—Samuel Butler

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I was walking down Fifth Avenue today, and I found a wallet. I was going to keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: Well, if I lost $150, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

—Emo Philips

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

—Helen Keller

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

—Cicero

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I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

—Babe Ruth

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Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

—Alexander Hodge

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Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise.

—Unknown

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If you had to define stress, it would not be far off if you said it was the process of living. The process of living is the process of having stress imposed on you and reacting to it.

—Unknown

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