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One has to commit a painting,' said Degas,'the way one commits a crime.

One has to commit a painting,’ said Degas,’the way one commits a crime.
– Elizabeth Bishop

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  3. Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it. – Henry Thomas Buckle
  4. Crime? What crime? … My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman … and you call that a crime? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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  7. Perception is like painting a scenery – no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself. – Abhijit Naskar
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  9. The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you’ll eventually commit all else. – Abdullah Ali
  10. The greatest sin you could commit is immortality, because it means that you’ll eventually commit all else. – Abdullah Ali
  11. Love will commit, or love will commit suicide. – Anthony Liccione
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  24. …so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin. – Martin Luther
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  26. Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor. – Emil M Cioran
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  28. The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. – Elizabeth Bishop
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  30. Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. – Bill Maher
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