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THE THREE THIEVES
Zig Ziglar, well-known motivational speaker tells the following story of three thieves: I’d like to introduce you to three thieves that I know. The first thief is a man named Emanuel Nenger. The year is 1887. The scene is a small neighborhood grocery store. A middle-aged gentleman is in the store buying some turnip greens. He gives the clerk a $20 bill and she starts to put the $20 bill in the cash drawer to give him his change. Then the clerk looks down at her fingers and she notices some of the ink from the $20 bill is coming off on her fingers which are wet because she’s been wrapping those turnip greens. And she looked up at Mr. Nenger. Here’s a man she’s known for years. She looks down at the $20 bill. She’s shocked. She wonders to herself, “Is this man giving me a counterfeit $20 bill?” And then she discounts it almost immediately because Emanuel Nenger is…