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Letter "S" » stealing
«I would like to make a toast to lying, stealing, cheating and drinking. If you're going to lie, lie for a friend. If you're going to steal, steal a heart. If your going to cheat, cheat death. And if you're going to drink, drink with me.»
«A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish
(Critic, Poet)
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Writers
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apple orchard, carry off, earlier, orchard, orchards, stealing
«Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.»
«He who will not apply himself to business, eventually discovers that he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging, or else is wholly void of reason»
«Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.»
Author: Jim Murray
(Writer)
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Baseball
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anywhere, ball game, Ball games, baseball game, curve, curved, curve ball, curving, legal, On The Ball, optical, optical illusion, pitch, pitches, pitch in, pitch into, screwball, screwballs, spat, spit, spits, spitted, spitting, spit out, stealing, umpire, umpired, Umpiring
«Homer and Hesiod have ascribed to the gods all things that are a shame and a disgrace among mortals, stealing and adulteries and deceiving on one another»
Author: Xenophanes
(Poet)
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adulteries, ascribed, deceiving, disgrace, Hesiod, homer, mortals, stealing
«Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.»
«Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few»
«Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
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Banks, Historians, homes, make love, Pessimists, river bank, shouting, stealing, The Story, whittle, whittled, whittles, written record
«By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.»
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