"I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing."
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"To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution."
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"Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime."
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"From a single crime know the nation."
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"To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues."
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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."
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"So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime."
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"I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him."
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"History is the study of the world's crime"
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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"The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war."
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"No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime."
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"We get the worrywart, the hypochondriac, the money-grubbing miser, the intractable negotiator... Some would say certain of these refer to the stereotypical, or 'stage' Jew. But objectively speaking, the only crime in humor is an unfunny joke."
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"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace"
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"I went straight from shenanigans to crimes against humanity."
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"To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands."
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"We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to transform them in ourselves and others."
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"Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?"
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"I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime."
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"I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime."
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