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Letter "B" » burglar
«If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.»
Author: G. Gordon Liddy
(Politician)
| Keywords:
burglar, congressman, congressmen, entertainer, entertainers, host, show host, talk show, talk show host
«After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts»
Author: Morris Mandel
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
advanced, alarms, bolt, burglar, Doors And Windows, huts, jungle, Natives, open door, sleep in, The Jungle, The Turning Point, to the point, turning point, turn on
«Things aren't right. If a burglar breaks into your home and you shoot him, he can sue you. For what, restraint of trade?»
«This the first time I ever heard it said that the crime is not the burglary, but the discovery of the burglar.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| Keywords:
burglar, burglary, Discovery of, The Discovery
«The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
burglar, faults, financier, financiers, qualities
«A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
burglar, honest, politician, unthinkable
«Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas.»
«In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
burglar, householder, in relation to, owner
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