"Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish."
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"This crime against humanity must never be forgotten."
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"There's only one remedy for crime — get rid of the psychs! They are causing it!"
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"There is no greater crime than desire."
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"The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman."
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"British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography."
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"The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate our own crimes, so nobody knows."
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"The perpetration of a crime is accompanied by illness!"
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"It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that."
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"I decided to be what crime made of me."
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"There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable."
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"The worst crimes; are the crimes of the heart"
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"it is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime"
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"Behind every fortune there is a crime."
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"Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment."
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"If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, "Naw, it's much more dangerous," despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously."
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"More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring."
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"The crime of inquiry is one which religion never has forgiven."
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"... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time."
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"Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness."
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