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"Let the punishment match the offense." »Cicero
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"Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many." »Publilius Syrus
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"Excessive literary production is a social offense." »George Eliot, a.k.a. Mary Ann Evans
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"Justice consists in doing no injury to men decency in giving them no offense." »Marcus Tullius Cicero De Officiis
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"I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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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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"An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens." »Robert Benchley
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"While technically I did not commit a crime, an impeachable offense... these are legalisms, as far as the handling of this matter is concerned it was so botched up, I made so many bad judgments. The worst ones, mistakes of the heart, rather than the head. But let me say, a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Thou shall not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, thou shall steal and thou must." »Branch Rickey/ Dogers GM (1943-50)
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