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"What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life." »Albert Camus
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"The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts." »Rene Descartes
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence." »Tom Blair
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"All children are essentially criminal." »Denis Diderot
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." »Bertrand Russell
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"The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved." »Publilius Syrus
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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal." »Erich Fromm
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"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein
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"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal." »Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
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"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be reguarded as a criminal offense." »E.W. Dijkstra
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"criminal A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott
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"criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." »Howard Scott, Economist
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"It could probably be show by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." »Albert Einstein
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"Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent." »Johnson
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"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." »Mark Twain
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"I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler
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"It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then." »Richard Willard Armour
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"Conceit causes more conversation than wit." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Your ignorance, cramps my conversation." »Sir Anthony Hawkins
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"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit." »Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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"conversation is food for the soul." »Mexican Proverb
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"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Silence is one great art of conversation." »Anonymous
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"Eating without conversation is only stoking." »Marcelene Cox
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