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"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate." »Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C.
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"Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is." »Alexander Senturia
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"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime." »Elsa Barker
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"crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil." »Marquis de Sade
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"What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." »Doris Lessing
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"If a person commit a crime against you, have not the right to forgive him; but the law must punish him in order to prevent a repetition of that same crime by others, as the pain of the individual is unimportant beside the general welfare of the people." »Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
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"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." »Colin Greenwood
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"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." »A. A. Milne
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"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." »G. Gordon Liddy
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"A crime which is the crime of many none avenge." »Lucan
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"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." »Judy Garland
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"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else." »Judy Garland
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"New York: A third-rate Babylon." »H. L. Mencken
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice." »Albert Einstein
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"The way to succeed is to double your error rate." »Thomas John Watson, Sr.
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"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice." »Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they" »George Carlin
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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" »George Carlin
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"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men" »Henry B. Adams
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"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness." »Chamfort
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible." »William Faulkner
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"crime does not pay ... as well as politics." »Alfred E. Newman
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"It's not failure, but low aim is crime." »Lowell
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"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it." »Anonymous
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"The reason there is so little crime in Germany is that it's against the law." »Alex Levin
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