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• Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing.

  Goodluck Jonathan

  Agency, Common, Financial

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• Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

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• I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

  Frank Miller

  New York, Writing, Men

  "Black and white and bloody" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2005.

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• There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

  Daniel Woodrell

  Sweet, Fiction, Realist

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• Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

  Frances Fox Piven

  Mother, Poverty, Welfare

  Frances Fox Piven (2012). “Lessons for Our Struggle”, p.12, Haymarket Books

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• A real cop fights real crime. A vice cop's only job is to ruin the party.

  Doug Stanhope

  Funny, Jobs, Real

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• When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Thinking, Years, Careers

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• Cyberbullying is an issue that affects all of us and demands that Canadians work together to put an end to it. This national public awareness campaign is an important step in protecting our children online. Along with our government’s introduction of Bill C-13, the Protecting Canadians from Online Crime Act, we are taking clear action to tackle cyberbullying.

  Peter MacKay

  Children, Government, Issues

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• Get Carter remains among the great crime novels, a lean, muscular portrait of a man stumbling along the hard edge - toward redemption. Ted Lewis cuts to the bone.

  James Sallis

  Cutting, Men, Crime Novels

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• I obeyed, but my crime was that I did not look obedient.

  Tehmina Durrani

  Looks, Obedient

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• The serious crimes by the Sudanese government and the government-supported militias must be met with serious consequences. We must work for tough international economic sanctions on the Sudanese government.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Government, Economic Sanctions, Serious

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• I'm a bit of a hacker fanatic and know a fair bit about that industry and cyber crime and cyber warfare.

  Seth Gordon

  Warfare, Hackers, Cyber

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 4, 2011.

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• Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.

  Curtis Sliwa

  Block, School, Night

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• Securities fraud generally and insider trading in particular should be eminently deterrable crimes.

  Preet Bharara

  Insider Trading, Should, Fraud

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• It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.

  William J. Brennan

  Unemployment, Cost, Problem

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• Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

  H. G. Wells

  Fire, Numbers, House

  1909 The History of Mr Polly, ch.10, pt.1.

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• I believe that the death penalty is the ultimate deterrent to violent crime...period.

  Troy King

  Believe, Death Penalty, Violent

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• Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.

  Wayne D. Dosick

  Life, Lying, Careers

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• There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

  Geoffrey Gray

  Thieves, Doe, Culture

  "Will Don Draper Become D.B. Cooper? A Skyjacking Expert Weighs In". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. April 16, 2014.

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• I love playing half squid/half crab guy because you can get away with a level of acting that if you tried it anywhere else they'd arrest you for crimes against acting.

  Bill Nighy

  Squids, Guy, Acting

  "EXCLUSIVE: Bill Nighy Is Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 20, 2007.

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• We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Character, Ideas, Two

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• Punishment follows close on crime.

  Horace

  Punishment

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 649-652, Carmina, IV. 5. 24, 1922.

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• Virtuosi have been long remarked to have little conscience in their favorite pursuits. A man will steal a rarity who would cut off his hand rather than take the money it is worth. Yet, in fact, the crime is the same.

  Horace

  Cutting, Men, Hands

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• Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wine, Insanity, Reason

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• Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Differences, Forgiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.203, Рипол Классик

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