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To his mind he was no more a thief of Nature than when, a country boy during the Depression, he had hooked 20-pound channel catfish, now long gone, out of the Chattahoochee River.
ECONOMIST: Ray Anderson
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The security system took several seconds to come down during the lunchtime attack, but the thief made no effort to get away.
BBC: Norwich jewellery thief snared by shop shutters
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Between missions you can use the cash gained from your stolen loot to purchase merchandise no well-heeled thief should be without-such as lockpicks, flash mines, invisibility potions, and scouting orbs, which act like miniature stationary cameras and can be used for a little surreptitious spying until retrieved.
CNN: Thief II: The thinking person's shooter
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And that left Jim, who had no desire to become a thief.
NEWYORKER: Another Manhattan
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Planters also used group incentives to encourage honesty, doling out a barrel of corn to each hand with the caveat that if anything was stolen from the farm and no one turned in the thief, double the value of that corn would be deducted from each of their Christmas awards.
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No one wants to employ a thief.
BBC: Shoplifter warning postcard
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You're in no immediate danger of a technologically-gifted thief plugging a couple of wires into your hotel door and making off with your sack of souvenirs from the Mall of America.
ENGADGET: Hacker finds flaw in hotel locks, can ruin your vacation with $50 DIY gadget
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The IRS often has no way of knowing that the first return received is from an identity thief.
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