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• There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.

  Homer

  Husband, Heart, Deeds

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• Murder is the unique crime, the only one for which we can never make reparation to the victim.

  P. D. James

  Unique, Crime, Victim

  P. D. James (2011). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.182, Faber & Faber

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• America has entered a great struggle that tests our strength, and even more our resolve. Our nation is patient and steadfast. We continue to pursue the terrorists in cities and camps and caves across the earth. We are joined by a great coalition of nations to rid the world of terror. And we will not allow any terrorist or tyrant to threaten civilization with weapons of mass murder. Now and in the future, Americans will live as free people, not in fear, and never at the mercy of any foreign plot or power.

  George W. Bush

  War, Struggle, Civilization

  "Sept. 11 Marked as Day of Remembering". abcnews.go.com. September 11.

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• I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don't know the conclusion at all and I don't know what's going to happen next. If there is a murder case as the first thing, I don't know who the killer is. I write the book because I would like to find out. If I know who the killer is, there's no purpose to writing the story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Purpose

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• How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.

  Mary Davys

  Children, Women, Blood

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• To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

  Laozi

  Rejoice, Conquest

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• We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

  Albert Camus

  Fighting, Thinking, Mad

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• I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius is too rare, too precious, to be permitted to waste the best years of life--the years of youth and lofty dreams--in a heart-breaking struggle for bread. To starve the soul with the body is to do worse than murder. Think, too, of what the public loses!

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Dream, Believe, Struggle

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• Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

  I. L. Peretz

  Father, Jewels, Land

  "Manginot HaZman" by I. L. Peretz, 1886.

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• English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Fire, People, England

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1833). “The Book of Beauty: Comprising a Collection of Tales, Poems, &c”, p.211

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• As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

  Dean Koontz

  Law, Play, Lines

  "Watchers". Book by Dean Koontz, 1987.

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• In America you can get away with murder, but not with sex.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Women, America

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• Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.

  Bill Bryson

  America, Possibility, Constant

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• I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

  Art Donovan

  Marine, Nuts, July

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• I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Night, Men

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• History is full of wrongs done the wife by legal robbery on the part of the husband. I hesitate not to assert that most of this crime of child murder, abortion, infanticide, lies at the door of the male sex.

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Sex, Children, Husband

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• George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

  Gideon Haigh

  Sports, War, Greatness

  Gideon Haigh (2010). “Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents”, p.197, Victory Books

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• Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

  David Buss

  Games, Competition, Evolution

  "Professor Conducted A Huge Study To Find Out Why People Kill" by Erin Fuchs, www.businessinsider.com. February 17, 2013.

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• The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Running, War, People

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• God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.

  Criss Jami

  Strong, Men, Judging

  Criss Jami (2016). “Healology”, p.39, Criss Jami

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• Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, People, Civilized Nations

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.180, Schocken

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• Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Believe, Common

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• How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Children, Men, Wife

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• Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.

  Raymond Chandler

  Vases, Alleys

  On the moving of murder mysteries from the English country house to more realistic areas. Quoted in Contemporary Authors (1979).

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• War is murder writ large.

  Carl Sagan

  War

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 326, 1980.

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