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• How immense appear to us the sins that we have not committed.
• Behind all the political rhetoric being hurled at us from abroad
  we are bringing home one unassailable fact -- [terrorism is] a crime by any civilized standard, committed against innocent people, away from the scene of political conflict, and must be dealt with as a crime....
• Conflicting research paradigms Have legitimized various crimes.
  The worst we can see Is in psychology, Measuring reaction times....
• O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
  -- Mme. Jeanne (Manon) Roland (1754-1793)...
• Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• What sin has not been committed in the name of efficiency?
• Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how the Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision.
  Since archeologists have recently discovered molds of human heads and hands on Kali, we can now conclude that the ancient Kalinese artists used molds of actual bodies, not sculpting tools and techniques, to create these statues....
• Okay, so I committed a little mail-fraud! Haven't I been punished enough?
  -- Bart, after Lisa finds out about his credit card fraud, "The Canine Mutiny...