Tacitus Quotes
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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Honest communication is a rare thing.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.
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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
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I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.
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Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.
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White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
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God save us from idealists! They dream of a world without injustice, and what crime won't they commit to get it! I swear, Mirella, I'll settle for a world with good manners.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
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Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
