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->''"I know you know fraud like no one else. I know that you can do the job, and that you'll never forget {{you owe me}} ... You're now the gambling and lottery commissioner."''
-->-- The '''Prime Minister''' to a racketeer, ''Literature/{{Soulstar}}'' by C.L. Polk
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-->-- ''Film/AntMan''

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-->-- ''Film/AntMan''''Film/AntMan1''
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-->-- ''Discworld/MakingMoney''

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-->-- ''Discworld/MakingMoney''
''Literature/MakingMoney''
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->'''Michael Newman:''' So, first I'm arrested, right? Best LSD I ever made right down the drain. I figure this is it, man, twenty years in the can if I'm lucky. That was 1968... Next thing I know, I'm on [[HellholePrison Rikers Island]]. You ever been there, man? Well, suddenly they take me from my cell, okay, they throw me in a waiting room with, like, bank teller windows: four army colonels with medals up their asses are standing on the other side. They say to me, if I come to Vietnam for two years - no action, mind you, just work in a lab - they'll drop all the charges and wipe the record clean. I'd only been in jail for like thirteen hours, [[TemptingFate I thought 'Nam couldn't be any worse]].
->'''[[ShellShockedVeteran Jacob Singer]]:''' [[WarIsHell Shows how little you knew]].
->'''Michael Newman:''' Yeah, really. But they had me by the balls. Next thing I know, I'm in Saigon, and [[ReluctantMadScientist I'm working in a top-secret lab]], [[PlayingWithSyringes isolating mind-altering drugs]]...
-->--''Film/JacobsLadder''
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'''Hank Pym:''' I want you to break into a place, and steal some shit.

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'''Hank Pym:''' I want you to break into a place, place and steal some shit.
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->'''Scott Lang:''' [[ReformedCriminal My days of breaking into places and stealing shit are done]]. What do you want me to do?\\
'''Hank Pym:''' I want you to break into a place, and steal some shit.
-->-- ''Film/AntMan''
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->'''Michael Newman:''' So, first I'm arrested, right? Best LSD I ever made right down the drain. I figure this is it, man, twenty years in the can if I'm lucky. That was 1968... Next thing I know, I'm on [[HellholePrison Rikers Island]]. You ever been there, man? Well, suddenly they take me from my cell, okay, they throw me in a waiting room with, like, bank teller windows: four army colonels with medals up their asses are standing on the other side. They say to me, if I come to Vietnam for two years - no action, mind you, just work in a lab - they'll drop all the charges and wipe the record clean. I'd only been in jail for like thirteen hours, [[TemptingFate I thought 'Nam couldn't be any worse]].
->'''[[ShellShockedVeteran Jacob Singer]]:''' [[WarIsHell Shows how little you knew]].
->'''Michael Newman:''' Yeah, really. But they had me by the balls. Next thing I know, I'm in Saigon, and [[ReluctantMadScientist I'm working in a top-secret lab]], [[PlayingWithSyringes isolating mind-altering drugs]]...
-->--''Film/JacobsLadder''
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->Excuse me, Captain, but did I just hear you ask the bosun to find you fifteen ''smugglers'' to man our customs flights?
-->-- Major Isvarian, ''[[Literature/HonorHarrington On Basilisk Station]]''
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->'''Von Lipwig:''' I've robbed banks!\\
'''Vetinari:''' Precisely, just invert your thinking. The money goes in to the bank.

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->'''Von Lipwig:''' I've robbed ''robbed'' banks!\\
'''Vetinari:''' Precisely, just invert Capital! Just reverse your thinking. The money goes in to should be on the bank.''inside''.
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->'''Von Lipwig:''' I've robbed banks!\\
'''Vetinari:''' Precisely, just invert your thinking. The money goes in to the bank.
-->-- ''Discworld/MakingMoney''
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->''"Sometimes, bad guys... make the best good guys."''
-->-- ''Series/{{Leverage}}''

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