"Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit."

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Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.

Freda Adler

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“Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.”
“Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.”
“Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.”

Source : Christopher Fry (1985). “Selected Plays”, p.220, Oxford University Press, USA
“I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.”
“How incredibly far our lives drift from where we knew with all certainty they would go. How little today resembles what yesterday thought it would look like.”

Source : Jim Beaver (2009). “Life's That Way”, p.37, Penguin
“See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.”
“This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.”
“Well, it may be humorous to you, but itâ€™s a very serious matter to the squirrels.”

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