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It seems to me that, while the favored skills are pretty much the same between the two races, the khajiiti thieves have a more logical distribution of the stats on the early levels.So i would go khajiit.

Keep in mind that Skyrim made skills trivial, so you can make a thievy nord without any trouble at all.