"The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the……" — Laozi
"The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be."
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:…
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King - He Died As He Lived.
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It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not…
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
— Robert Burns
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The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits
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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other…
— Robert Burns
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Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a…
— Harold Covington
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Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh…
— Raphael
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Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from…
— Colin Fletcher
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