Emily Prentiss quotes from Criminal Minds

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[to Hotchner] Well, I think politics makes people distrustful. I think it makes them hate themselves. I think it tears families apart, and damages people. So if there's nothing else, I would like to get back out on the street and find out who's killing these women. Sir.

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An old Russian proverb reminds us, "There can be no good without evil."

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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy

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British historian James Anthony Froude once said, "Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."

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"In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological; resistant to generalization; a mystery of the individual soul." Barbara Ehrenreich

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"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering." Ben Okri

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[looking through a victim's personal belongings] It's always sad seeing someone's life reduced to the things they had with them when they died. It's just so clear they didn't know how short their time would be.

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Author Christian Nestell Bovee once wrote, "No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

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"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it." Ayn Rand

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"Plenty sits still; hunger is a wanderer." Zulu proverb

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"Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, and the East and West, the wander-thirst that will not let me be." Gerald Gould

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Author Harlan Ellison wrote, "The minute people fall in love, they become liars."

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Winston Churchill said, "There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues of human society are created, strengthened and maintained."

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Leonardo da Vinci said, "He who does not punish evil commands it to be done."

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Writer Cyril Connolly said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."