"That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair."
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"You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is."
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"Despotism is a long crime."
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"It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much."
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"I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts."
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"Chávez inherited a dysfunctional judicial system and more or less regional (that is to say: bad) crime rates. He leaves an anarchic judicial system and horrendous crime rates. He neglected, bungled, and politicized policing, the courts and the jails."
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"There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime."
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"Carrying a loaded firearm is the gateway crime to committing a murder."
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"The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself."
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"All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life"."
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"Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better."
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"Crime, like virtue, has its degrees."
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"The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime."
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"Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!"
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"Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments."
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"Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy -- love which creates life?"
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"The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime."
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"Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description."
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"Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter."
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"He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so."
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