"Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man."

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Source : Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.113, Ipso Books

Margery Allingham

#Men Quotes #Blood Quotes #Police Quotes

“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.”
“Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.”
“Fiction to me is a kind of parable. You have got to make up your mind it's not true. Some kind of truth emerges from it, but it's not fact.”
“I am invested in keeping present the forgotten bodies.”

Source : Interview with Ratik Asokan, logger.believermag.com. December 10, 2014.
“I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.”

Source : "What does a networked future look like?". Yale School of Menegement Interview, insights.som.yale.edu. May 15, 2013.
“The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.”

Source : Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.18, Penguin UK
“I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.”
“Portraiture is something that we're all drawn to. I think primarily other forms - we prefer, by and large, to look at human beings than a bowl of fruit.”

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