"Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity."
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"The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking."
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"I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul"
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"He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune."
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"I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book."
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"All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state."
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"There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool."
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"Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies."
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"Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers."
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"Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers."
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"Some folks pay a compliment like they went down in their pocket for it."
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"It's insane how many Roman coins are being found! It's as if all Romans had holes in their pockets. They sowed coins wherever they went. Even in the fields. Maybe to grow money . . ."
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"Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee"
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"I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready."
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"If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC."
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"Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's."
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"Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?"
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"And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine."
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"A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve"
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"A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party."
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