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"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."
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"Ever see moors murderer Ian Brady, study his photos, study Black, study Cannon, study Sutcliffe - study them all! Who says evil is not recognisable?"
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"On general principles it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes."
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"The pleasant fact is that the British are not much good at violent crime except in fiction, which is of course as it should be."
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"How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons."
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"That was what murder was-as easy as that!But afterwards you went on remembering..."
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"Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder."
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"The criminal is the creative artist, the detective only the critic."
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"[Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives."
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"There is no such thing as a plain fact of murder. Murder springs, nine times out of ten, out of the character and circumstances of the murdered person. Because the victim was the kind of person he or she was, therefore was he or she murdered! Until we can understand fully and completely exactly what kind of a person [she] was, we shall not be able to see clearly exactly the kind of person who murdered her. From that spring the necessity of our questions."
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"Don't go, said Cedric. "Murder has made you practically one of the family."
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"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."
Strength
"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."
Time
"All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time."
Time
"A book worth reading is worth buying."
Values
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
Science
"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
Nation
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
People
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
Life
"Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder."
Music
"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime."
Crime
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