{"quotes":[{"text":"Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["africa","beaming","church","den","eradicating-darkness","instead","jesus","light","place","robbers","unfortunately"],"id":3505,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The gangs of arrogant thieves that can rob you of your success are your own doubts, fears and low self-image. Get them arrested and kept distances apart and you and your accomplishments are secured.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishments","attack","distance","doubting","doubts","fear","fear-of-the-unknown","fearful","fears","food-for-thought","gang","israelmore-ayivor","loot","rob","robbers","secure","security","self-esteem","self-image","steal","success","thieves"],"id":16837,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"If you met the robbers and they robbed you, you should not cry. Think 'how will I go on [do progress] now?' You will get all the help you need. What does one gain by crying 'what will become of me?' Who is the one suffering, the robber or the one who was robbed? The fault is of the sufferer.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["help","progress","robbers","spiritual","spiritual","suffering"],"id":181508,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"A few years back, they jacked David Copperfield in West Palm Beach, for Chrissake. Yes, it's funny: 'Yo, empty your pockets,' and he pulls out a bunny rabbit. But it's also depressing. If someone who can make himself disappear isn't safe, who is?","author":"Colin Quinn","tags":["crime","crime-rate","david-copperfield","disappearing","florida","getting-mugged","getting-robbed","magic","magician","magicians","mugged","mugging","robbers","robbery","street-crime","theft","west-palm-beach"],"id":255605,"author_id":"Colin+Quinn"},{"text":"A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","antinatalism","antinatalist","antinatalists","anxiety","anxious","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","casket","caskets","coffin","coffins","dead","death","deep","depress","depressing","dictum","dictums","dying","enjoy","enjoyment","epigram","epigrams","eulogies","eulogy","funeral","funerals","funny","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","hurt","hurting","immortal","immortality","insightful","joy","lament","laments","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","pain","philosopher","pleasure","pleasures","premature","premature-death","premature-deaths","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rob","robbed","robber","robbers","robbing","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","south-africa","south-african","stress","suffer","suffering","thought-provoking","thoughtful","worried","worry","worrying"],"id":327799,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}