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"These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!"
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John Dillinger
"These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!"
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"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
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Aldrich Ames
"The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?"
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"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized."
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Adolf Hitler
"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized."
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"This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets."
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Jack Abramoff
"This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns. This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets."
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"Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust."
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Aldrich Ames
"Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust."
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"When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement."
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Aldrich Ames
"When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement."
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"I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon."
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Mark David Chapman
"I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon."
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"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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Aldrich Ames
"The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes."
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"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
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Adolf Hitler
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
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"And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living."
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Warren Jeffs
"And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living."
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"I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me."
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Charles Manson
"I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me."
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"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."
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Lynette Fromme
"Keep talking about moving toxic wastes, but never let it cross your mind to quit producing them. Keep Judging yourselves in Manson. Don't look in the mirror. You will serve the Earth as much as she serves you or you will commit suicide."
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"I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime."
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Dennis Kozlowski
"I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime."
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"I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists."
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Giuseppe Zangara
"I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists."
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"The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors."
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Cole Younger
"The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors."
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"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."
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Aldrich Ames
"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."
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"I know that my life is going to be hell from here on."
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Susan Smith
"I know that my life is going to be hell from here on."
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"Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences."
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Guy Burgess
"Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences."
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"Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time."
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Meyer Lansky
"Don't worry, don't worry. Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts, all those big society people. They were the worst thieves - and now look at them. It's just a matter of time."
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"I have built my organization upon fear."
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Al Capone
"I have built my organization upon fear."
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"This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September."
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Jesse James
"This was in June, 1866. Frank wrote for me to come to him at once, and although my own wound was still very bad, I started immediately and stayed with him at the house of Mr. Alexander Severe, in Nelson county, until he recovered, which was in September."
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"I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place."
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Mickey Cohen
"I didn't kill anyone that didn't deserve killing in the first place."
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"It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York. It was the last time I saw her."
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Dennis Kozlowski
"It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York. It was the last time I saw her."
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"She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money."
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Dennis Kozlowski
"She seemed to mean what she said. She said pretty much this: I retained some lawyers, I have to move on with my life, I am divorcing you, and then she added, I need money."
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"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
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Aldrich Ames
"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies."
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"If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution."
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Adolf Hitler
"If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution."
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"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
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Aldrich Ames
"Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union."
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"My children deserve to have the best, and now they will."
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Susan Smith
"My children deserve to have the best, and now they will."
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"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."
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Cole Younger
"They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off."
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"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
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Adolf Hitler
"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
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"I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me."
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Susan Smith
"I know now that it is going to be a tough and long road ahead of me."
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"I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die."
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Jesse James
"I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die."
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"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated."
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Aldrich Ames
"The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated."
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"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."
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Timothy McVeigh
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."
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"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
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Aldrich Ames
"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
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"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
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Adolf Hitler
"If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed."
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"I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it."
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Dennis Nilsen
"I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it."
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"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."
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Mark David Chapman
"I don't think I'm a celebrity. A chimpanzee could have done what I did."
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"I understand why so many Americans were angry when I was first discovered in Afghanistan. I realize many still are, but I hope in time that feeling will change."
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John Walker Lindh
"I understand why so many Americans were angry when I was first discovered in Afghanistan. I realize many still are, but I hope in time that feeling will change."
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"How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear."
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Lynette Fromme
"How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear."
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"People want to see this America, this real America."
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Michael Taylor
"People want to see this America, this real America."
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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
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John Walker Lindh
"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
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"I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck."
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Susan Smith
"I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck."
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"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently."
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Jeffrey Skilling
"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently."
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"I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them."
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Gary Gilmore
"I've got problems and if you sentence me to additional time, I'm going to compound them."
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"Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here."
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Mark David Chapman
"Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here."
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"The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow."
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Guy Burgess
"The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow."
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"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself."
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Henry Morgan
"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself."
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"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive."
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Susan Smith
"The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive."
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"It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God."
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Warren Jeffs
"It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God."
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