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• Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

  Bob Taft

  Trust, September 11, Safe

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• I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

  Dick Morris

  Done, May, Enough

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• I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, Want, Paint

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• Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  War, Struggle, Thrones

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• What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Children, Dozen, May

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• Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Character, Fear Nothing, Knows

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• Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  Ideas, Atheism, Watches

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• One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Want, Tests, Virtue

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

  Fred Melamed

  Children, Believe, Two

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• Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

  Norman Lamm

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

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• The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Inspiration, Language, Innocent

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• A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Science, Simple

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.69, Basic Books

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Perfect, United States

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• It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

  Charles Peguy

  Winning, Empty, Loses

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• Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

  Cat Stevens

  Revenge, Land, Community

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gun

  "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

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• An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

  Samuel Johnson

  Age, Decay, Modesty

  Samuel Johnson (1811). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.27

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• Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.

  Thomas Gray

  Pain, Childhood, Stranger

  William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith”

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• Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

  Johan Huizinga

  Sunday, America, Pages

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• Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Vices, Audacity, Virtue

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• Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Literature, Path

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• Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

  Samuel Butler

  Justice, Sometimes, Crime

  Samuel Butler (1806). “Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars”, p.248

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• The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

  Henri Matisse

  Children, Artist, Looks

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.218, Univ of California Press

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• Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

  John Shirley

  Mind, States, Discrete

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• Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

  Giorgio de Chirico

  Art, Butterfly, Men

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