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"Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung."
Josephus Daniels
"Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung."
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"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
Alfred Hitchcock
"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
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"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."
Vittorio Alfieri
"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the 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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"The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."
Ovid
"The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."
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"The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then."
Stephen Richards
"The rush I got from crime was better than that of glue, drink or hash. I loved playing cat and mouse with the local coppers. He Who Dares Wins, the SAS motto, was very applicable to my life then."
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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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"I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime."
O. J. Simpson
"I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime."
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"A first impulse was never a crime."
Pierre Corneille
"A first impulse was never a crime."
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"It was a mild winter's evening in 'Japp's Saloon and Speakeasy', in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn't enjoy jokes about his name much."
Christina Engela
"It was a mild winter's evening in 'Japp's Saloon and Speakeasy', in the northwest corner of the only legal red-light area of the city. (The S.O.D.s believed in crime management.) Timaset Skooch leaned back in the aluminum framed chair, checking his cards carefully while wearing his best poker face. Across the table from him sat Jonn Deire, a large man who was trying very hard to out-poker face him and who didn't enjoy jokes about his name much."
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"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
Maximilien Robespierre
"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."
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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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"Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime."
Henry Lee Lucas
"Once I've done a crime, I just forget it. I go from crime to crime."
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"First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?"
Jack Kevorkian
"First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?"
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"What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer."
Pat Brown
"What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer."
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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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"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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"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."
Steig Larsson
"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course."
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"Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime."
Andre Braugher
"Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime."
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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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"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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"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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"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
Pierre Corneille
"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
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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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"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."
Jean-Paul Sartre
"I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens."
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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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"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."
Robert Duvall
"I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment."
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"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
Will Rogers
"Make crime pay. Become a lawyer."
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"But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction."
Cliff Stearns
"But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction."
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"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."
Henry Miller
"The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."
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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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"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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"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
Mikhail Bakunin
"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness."
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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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"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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"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
Stephen Ambrose
"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed."
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"He who allows oppression shares the crime."
Desiderius Erasmus
"He who allows oppression shares the crime."
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"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."
Rush Limbaugh
"There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not."
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"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
David Dinkins
"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
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"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
Christopher Darden
"All I can really say is it's bloodier than hell. In this one I'm going to be much more direct and honest in my description of the actual killings and the crime scene."
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"I am not sorry for my crime."
Leon Czolgosz
"I am not sorry for my crime."
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"The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets."
Jay Leno
"The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets."
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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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"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us."
Georges Bataille
"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us."
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"After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor."
John Huston
"After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor."
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"In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States."
Dave Reichert
"In fact, street gangs are the primary distributor of illegal drugs in the United States."
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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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"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great."
Charles Sturt
"In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great."
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