David Rossi quotes from Criminal Minds

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Karl Kraus said, "A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards."

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"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." Blaise Pascal

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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice." Abraham Lincoln

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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have, who then am I?" German psychologist Erich Fromm

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"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." F. Scott Fitzgerald

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William Shakespeare wrote, "When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." [NOTE: This quote is frequently misattributed to Shakespeare and is actually an old Yiddish proverb.]

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"A sincere artist tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing." Painter William Dobell

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"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had." Eric Schmidt

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Marcel Proust wrote, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."

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Mark Twain wrote, "When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."

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"Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them." Writer Oscar Wilde

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"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." Sally Kempton

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Agathon said, "Of this alone, even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."

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"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness." Joseph Conrad

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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." Aristotle