"It was not war, it was murder."
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"Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work."
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"Murder shoots, I give your ass good seats"
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"Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!"
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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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"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
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"It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination."
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"59% of all suicides are actually botched murder-suicides performed by dyslexics."
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"Murder is terribly exhausting."
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"No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds."
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"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ."
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"We don't murder, we kill.... You don't murder animals, you kill them."
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"One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away."
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"There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich."
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"Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind."
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"Failure to love is almost like murder."
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"Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."
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"Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot."
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"It is not a war. It is murder."
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"Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."
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