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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of read more
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become read more
I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.
Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
Capitalism is glorified institutionalized street crime.
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.
I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.
 I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for read more 
 I realized I had been paying hit men to slaughter
cows for my table... and I stopped, but not for 6 months
in which I rationalized. 
 Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our 
inclination.
 [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
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 Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our 
inclination.
 [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris
  Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.] 
 For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
 [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
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 For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.
 [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum,
  Facti crimen habet.] 
 Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere 
desire of occupation.
 [Lat., Solent occupationis spe read more 
 Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere 
desire of occupation.
 [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta 
committi.]