He has committed the crime who profits by it.


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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
He who profits by a crime commits it
SENECA
He who profits by a crime, commits it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.
IAIN PEARS
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
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LEONARD DOWNIE
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BILL POWERS
The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Je...
CARL SAGAN
The crime is a misdemeanor in itself and it has to be obviously be committed in the officer's presen...
DWIGHT MITCHELL
There has to be some evidence besides the confession that the criminal act was committed by someone ...
STEPHANIE PAGE
What we have is an obligation to investigate whether a crime has been committed,
JANET RENO
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MAHBOD SERAJI
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STEPHEN KENNY
I would like to confirm once again that Syria believes, strongly believes, that it is innocent and t...
FAYSSAL MEKDAD
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LEE COHEN
He profits most who serves best.
ARTHUR F. SHELDON
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He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.
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The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.
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He only profits from praise who values criticism.
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He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
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He profits most who serves best. -Arthur F. Sheldon.
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It is outrageous, the number of times he has committed his crimes and the number of people he has ha...
KAREN PETERS
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
ERASMUS DARWIN
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
ERASMUS
But I wonder where we will land if trial Judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committe...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
this defendant committed the same crime over and over and over again.
CLARK BREWSTER
There was insufficient evidence that Mr. Simmons committed a crime.
CHRIS LIEGEL
Don’t feel guilty for a crime you have not committed – commit it and be guilt free
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EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU
Circumstances are important. The circumstances mitigate the degree to which the crime was committed.
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And [by] the day when...
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DAVID GREEN
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One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments...
OSCAR WILDE
Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.
FRANCIS MAUDE
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
One crime has to be concealed by another.
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A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equ...
LYSANDER SPOONER
He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.
UNKNOWN
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
DAVID DINKINS
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
DAVID N. DINKINS
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
ANTHONY POWELL
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
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The first report we get is not always the first time a crime has been committed. And there are a lot...
KRISTINE THORNBERRY
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
CONFUCIUS
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
CONFUCIUS
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
CONFUCIUS
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JESSICA NICHOLAS
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LUKE SCOTT
We are looking into the matter but what is clear is that a crime was committed.
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ELIZARDO SANCHEZ
There is a director who should make 'Silver Surfer' — he is mentally committed to it.
AVI ARAD
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
ANTHONY POWELL
Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
CONTE VITTORIO ALFIERI
Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.
ALVIN TOFFLER
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
DAVID DINKINS
He has no history of that kind of violent crime.
ROBERT ANDREWS
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN
To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that...
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GEORGE ORWELL
These people have committed no crime, but there is no supervision of the way they are being held,
IRENE KHAN
He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
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Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr...
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The only successful form of organised crime has to be government by a head.
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