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• She blinked at me, then realized I was panicking. Honestly, it was like admitting to murder before being interrogated. “Ms. Davidson,” she began, but I decided to trip her up, to throw her off the trail of blood I’d left like an injured animal. “I don’t speak English.

  Darynda Jones

  Animal, Blood, Speak English

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.475, St. Martin's Press

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• You are so lucky I'm too tired to murder you right now.

  Rachel Caine

  Tired, Lucky, Right Now

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• I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.

  Rachel Vincent

  Teacher, Moving, Math

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• The particular skill that allows you to talk your way out of a murder rap, or convince your professor to move you from the morning to the afternoon section, is what the psychologist Robert Sternberg calls "practical intelligence." To Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like "knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for for maximum effect.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Morning, Rap, Moving

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• One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.

  Neal Shusterman

  Past, Events

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnSouled”, p.402, Simon and Schuster

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• She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

  Liane Moriarty

  Mistake, People, Arbitrary

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• It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

  George MacDonald

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, May

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• The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Freedom, Mean, Democracy

  "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, p. 27, 1994.

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• Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

  Frank Moore Colby

  Inspirational, Humor, Men

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• It's like an act of murder - you play with intent to commit something.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Play, Jazz

  New York Herald Tribune, July 09, 1961.

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• Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Music, Mouths, Jazz

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Country, Peace

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.

  John T. Flynn

  Peace, Moving, Destiny

  John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”

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• Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Peace, Ubuntu

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow

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• We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

  Ramsay MacDonald

  Suicide, War, Politics

  In Observer 4 May 1930

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• The Jehovah of the Jews is a suspicious tyrant, who breathes nothing but blood, murder, and carnage, and who demands that they should nourish him with the vapours of animals. The Jupiter of the Pagans is a lascivious monster. The Moloch of the Phoenicians is a cannibal. The pure mind of the Christians resolved, in order to appease his fury, to crucify his own son. The savage god of the Mexicans cannot be satisfied without thousands of mortals which are immolated to his sanguinary appetite.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Christian, Son, Animal

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• What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

  Thomas Paine

  Bible, Believe, Religion

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• All over the world, belief in the supernatural has authorised the sacrifice of people to propitiate bloodthirsty gods, and the murder of witches for their malevolent powers.

  Steven Pinker

  Sacrifice, People, Religion

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.717, Penguin

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• The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.

  Geert Wilders

  Inspiration, Politics, Intolerance

  "Dutch Islam Film 'Nearly Ready'". news.bbc.co.uk. February 28, 2008.

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• The methods used to take human lives, such as abortion, the pill, the ring, etc., amounts to genocide. I believe that legal abortion is legal murder.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Believe, Abortion, Pills

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• ...is it surprising that today we have become so morally blind (for wickedness blinds) that we save the baby whales at great cost, and murder millions of unborn children?

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Baby, Children, Whales

  Alice Von Hildebrand (2002). “The Privilege of Being a Woman”, Ignatius Press

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• A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Animal, Men, Looks

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• There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom- freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the attractiveness of a mass movement

  Eric Hoffer

  Lying, Hate, Men

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.

  Aberjhani

  Inspirational, Religious, Nature

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.102, Lulu.com

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• Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

  Bruno Jasienski

  Betrayal, Fear, Ignorance

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