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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to accou

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed. – Honore de Balzac

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Great thieves punish little ones. – Proverb

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Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat. – Proverb

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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. – Freda Adler

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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. – Georges Bataille

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It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we dont acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children. – James Earl Jones

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle

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