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"Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out." »Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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"desperate affairs require desperate remedies." »Horatio Nelson
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden"
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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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"Tempt not a desperate man." »Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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"A thing can be true and still be desperate folly." »Richard Adams, _Watership Down_
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"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things." »Henry David Thoreau
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"All children are essentially criminal." »Denis Diderot
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"The judge is condemned when the criminal is absolved." »Publilius Syrus
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim." »Bertrand Russell
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"My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest." »Titus Livius
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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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"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal." »Elizabeth Fry, Journal entry
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"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend." »R Chamberlain
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"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime." »Erich Fromm
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"It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance." »Thomas Jefferson
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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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"My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, My mother, drunk or sober." »G. K. Chesterton
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""My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."" »G. K. Chesterton
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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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"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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"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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"Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress." »Quentin Crisp
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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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