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"I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means."
Ian Williams
"I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a "mature" record means."
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"You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?"
Jupiter Hammon
"You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?"
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"I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public."
Mordechai Vanunu
"I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public."
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"There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are crimes that are shameful, disgraceful, all horror aside, so to speak, even far too ungracious..."
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"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."
Woody Allen
"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."
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"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance."
Frederick Soddy
"But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance."
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"I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?"
Lindsay Lohan
"I'm the hardest working person I know. I'm 20 years old - is it a crime to want to go out dancing with my friends?"
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"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."
Jessica Savitch
"I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is."
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"We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison."
Greg Walden
"We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison."
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"Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry."
M.F. Moonzajer
"Rape is not an extraordinary or evil act for an assailant. It is like forcing someone to eat when she is not hungry."
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"Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural."
William Shakespeare
"Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural."
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"Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?"
Tupac Shakur
"Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?"
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"If you commit a crime, you're guilty."
Rush Limbaugh
"If you commit a crime, you're guilty."
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"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."
James Q. Wilson
"I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom."
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"If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault."
Peggy Noonan
"If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault."
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"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime."
G. Gordon Liddy
"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime."
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"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
Freda Adler
"Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused."
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"There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered."
Louis Stokes
"There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered."
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"Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide."
Bob Filner
"Three thousand jurisdictions across the U.S. are estimated to have had gang activity in 2001. In 2002, 32% of cities with a population of 25 to 50 thousand reported a gang-related homicide."
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"The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up."
Jay Leno
"The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up."
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"It's not a crime to get drunk."
Joe Bob Briggs
"It's not a crime to get drunk."
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"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
Stephen Ambrose
"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
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"No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds."
Titus Livius
"No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds."
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"There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it."
Chuck Todd
"There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it."
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"We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated."
Tim Bishop
"We need to send a clear message to gang members that violent crime will not be tolerated."
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"Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide."
Sara Paretsky
"Sisters in Crime now has more than 4,000 members worldwide."
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"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."
Jose Bergamin
"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."
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"...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail."
Agatha Christie
"...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.''What is that?'' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail."
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"We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime."
Bianca Jagger
"We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime."
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"In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy."
Betty Hill
"In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy."
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"I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade."
Howard Coble
"I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade."
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"Now if you want to look to the medical profession for a true hard bastard, there is none harder, in my opinion, than the man I will now name. I mean, 99.9 per cent of doctors would want to protect their pension and keep in with the in-crowd, not, though, this man amongst men. The star witness against the screws from Barlinnie was Doctor Simon Danson."
Stephen Richards
"Now if you want to look to the medical profession for a true hard bastard, there is none harder, in my opinion, than the man I will now name. I mean, 99.9 per cent of doctors would want to protect their pension and keep in with the in-crowd, not, though, this man amongst men. The star witness against the screws from Barlinnie was Doctor Simon Danson."
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"Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write."
Wally Amos
"Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write."
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"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
Antonia Fraser
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
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"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."
Yancy Butler
"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."
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"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
Tupac Shakur
"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
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"In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement."
Robert Mueller
"In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement."
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"Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime."
Jerry Weller
"Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime."
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"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."
Sara Paretsky
"White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America."
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"Crime is a product of social excess."
Vladimir Lenin
"Crime is a product of social excess."
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"The crime novel has always been my favourite genre."
Sara Paretsky
"The crime novel has always been my favourite genre."
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"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent."
Barry McCaffrey
"The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent."
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"The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king."
Alex Cox
"The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king."
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"However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today."
Bob Filner
"However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today."
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"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."
Marion Berry
"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate."
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"As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals."
Jesse Ventura
"As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals."
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"At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO."
Sue Grafton
"At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO."
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"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
"Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime."
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"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
Jeffery Deaver
"Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence."
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"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
Evelyn Waugh
"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."
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