…people demonize certain types of crime – it’s a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters…
– John Geddes
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- The monsters don’t live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters. – Kameron Hurley
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- Monsters, show me the monsters: these people out on the street. My people. – Jos Eduardo Agualusa
- You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you. – Phil Mitchell
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- Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness. – Stephen Richards
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- The crime series, books and other types of works have in one in mind… and that’s learning. – Deyth Banger
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- As a child, I was afraid of the dark and the monsters on the outside.As a man, I run away from the light, afraid to show the monsters within. – Anthony Liccione
- Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters. – Niccol Ammaniti
- War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters? – Kameron Hurley
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- It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters. – Samantha Young
- ANSON: I guess we’re all monsters.KAYLEE: Yeah, well, humans can be monsters, too… – T S Joyce
- Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime. – Bill Maher
- We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it. – mile Durkheim
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- If only they gave all unsolved crime cases television air time, they could be solved within an hour on one of those crime story shows. – Spaz tastic
- Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics. – Steven Magee
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- Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. – Marcel Proust
- Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade. – Haruki Murakami
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- My God, these Feeling types! … Sensitive people are just tyrannical people – everybody else has to adapt to them. – MarieLouise von Franz
- We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices…. Government has to make those choices for people. – Hillary Rodham Clinton
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- We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves. – Mike Carey
- Anything can happen, Pet. If there’s one thing for certain, it’s that nothing is for certain. – Joshua Edward Smith