"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford."
-Hannah Arendt
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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
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"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."
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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."
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"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been."
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"Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up."
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"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"
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"Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge."
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"And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness."
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"Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity."
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"I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration."
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"And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad."
-John Rowland
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