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These thieves knew exactly what monkeys they wanted to steal, there are two possibilities. Either a collector or the black market for new types of pets. – Rodolphe Debord	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Some people began returning to the neighbourhood, but the strikes began again and now they're leaving a second time. The place is devastated: there are no roads, no water and no electricity. Nobody's left but thieves. – Hisham Abdul Wahab	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I knew it wouldn't deter the most determined of thieves. – Kristen Rephser	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We would have to accept that a significant number of our founding fathers participated in the genocide or became rich from pilfering. It's very difficult for any nation to declare its liberation heroes were murderers and thieves. – Taner Akcam	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are like thieves in our own homes. – Efren Montehermido	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Instead of working with the researchers to fix the problem, Volkswagen chose to bury its head in the sand and pretend that banning academic discussion of the flaw would somehow prevent thieves from learning of it and exploiting it, because of Volkswagen's refusal to engage with the security researcher community, their cars may still be vulnerable to the attack and their customers are less secure. – Nate Cardozo	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It was backwoods, there were no lights around. (The thieves) made sure no one could see them while they were getting rid of the car. – John Cohen	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
These thieves were not sophisticated criminals, as evidenced by the fact that two of the paintings were cut out of their frames, the significant value of the stolen artwork seems to have elevated the status of the thieves to master criminals but that's a specious assumption. – Geoff Kelly	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business. – Jimmy Carter	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? – Natalie Clifford Barney	added by anonymous 10 years ago
With knowledge, say, what other wealth Can vie, which neither thieves by stealth Can take, nor kinsmen make their prey, Which, lavished, never wastes away. – Sanskrit Proverb	added by anonymous 12 years ago
The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be. – Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves. – Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them. – Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men? – Natalie Clifford Barney	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The big thieves hang the little ones. – Czech Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men – Natalie Clifford Barney	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. – Euripides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be. – Lao Tzu	added by anonymous 14 years ago
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago

These thieves knew exactly what monkeys they wanted to steal, there are two possibilities. Either a collector or the black market for new types of pets.

– Rodolphe Debord

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Some people began returning to the neighbourhood, but the strikes began again and now they're leaving a second time. The place is devastated: there are no roads, no water and no electricity. Nobody's left but thieves.

– Hisham Abdul Wahab

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I knew it wouldn't deter the most determined of thieves.

– Kristen Rephser

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We would have to accept that a significant number of our founding fathers participated in the genocide or became rich from pilfering. It's very difficult for any nation to declare its liberation heroes were murderers and thieves.

– Taner Akcam

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are like thieves in our own homes.

– Efren Montehermido

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Instead of working with the researchers to fix the problem, Volkswagen chose to bury its head in the sand and pretend that banning academic discussion of the flaw would somehow prevent thieves from learning of it and exploiting it, because of Volkswagen's refusal to engage with the security researcher community, their cars may still be vulnerable to the attack and their customers are less secure.

– Nate Cardozo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It was backwoods, there were no lights around. (The thieves) made sure no one could see them while they were getting rid of the car.

– John Cohen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

These thieves were not sophisticated criminals, as evidenced by the fact that two of the paintings were cut out of their frames, the significant value of the stolen artwork seems to have elevated the status of the thieves to master criminals but that's a specious assumption.

– Geoff Kelly

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.

– Jimmy Carter

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

– Natalie Clifford Barney

added by anonymous
10 years ago

With knowledge, say, what other wealth Can vie, which neither thieves by stealth Can take, nor kinsmen make their prey, Which, lavished, never wastes away.

– Sanskrit Proverb

added by anonymous
12 years ago

The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.

– Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

– Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

– Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

– Natalie Clifford Barney

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

– Unknown