Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain."
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Cain
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Steven James
Actor
"Here is the paradox of the thing we call freedom: the farther we wander from God and the more we try to break free from him, the more enchained we become. Every step we take away from Him leads us farther from the freedom of Jesus and closer to the cruelty of Cain."
Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day."
Herman Cain
Businessman, Politician
"Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President."
Herman Cain
Businessman, Politician
"How do you beat Obama? Beat him with a Cain!"
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"My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know" or "I didn't know." Then comes a period, followed by "Am I my brother's keeper?""
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"That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?"
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"They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak."
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"He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth."
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"Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain."
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