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  • In 1966 the ACS formulated a State Model Cancer Act which was instrumental in the enactment of anti-quackery laws now enforced in 9 states...In California (it is a) felony...The use of unproven methods is also a criminal offense in Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

    Cancer   Dark   Illinois  
  • People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison.

    Color   People   Drug  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

    Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC
  • ... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

    Character   Eye   Fire  
    Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.404
  • I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  • Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

    Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.125, Penguin
  • The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats over the phone?" To give Powers his fair due, he got over his shock within a split second. “Try it, asshole. I dare you. My lawyers will have you for lunch.” He clicked off again. I did what any red-blooded American male would do. I called my big, ex-cop ex-boyfriend.

  • Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges.

    Real   Liars   Law  
  • The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

  • If you are passed out drunk or if there is a gun to your head, it is the same crime. It is a crime where there is not consent. It is a felony. And we need to start making sure victims understand that, so they don't do the self blame.

    Reality   Gun   Self  
  • Good evening. A President who lied us into a war and, in so doing, needlessly killed 3,584 of our family and friends and neighbors; a President whose administration initially tried to destroy the first man to nail that lie; a President whose henchmen then ruined the career of the intelligence asset that was his wife when intelligence assets were never more essential to the viability of the Republic; a President like that has tonight freed from the prospect of prison the only man ever to come to trial for one of the component felonies in what may be the greatest crime of this young century.

    War   Lying   Men  
  • Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.

    Funny   Humor   Australia  
    P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.161, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.

    "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.
  • What actually happened during the Clinton presidency? No one can remember anything about it except the bimbos, the lies, and the felonies

    Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.61, Crown Forum
  • In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

    Harlan Ellison (1989). “Harlan Ellison's watching”
  • I would say this, I'll go back to those black ladies I was talking about who love them some Barack and love Michelle even more - and by the way, they are not middle-aged anymore, because I'm now middle-aged. So they're a little bit older. As fervent as they were, as excited and happy as they were when I was elected, they had to go to work the next morning. They still had trouble paying those bills. They might have still had a son who was in trouble with the law or couldn't get a job because of a felony record. They didn't stop being grounded.

    Morning   Jobs   Son  
    Source: www.theatlantic.com
  • I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

  • Millions of people are unable to vote due to felony convictions with the highest rates among black men. People in prison are denied the right to vote in 48 states, and while we accept that as normal in the United States, in other western democracies people in prison do have the right to vote.

    Men   People   Black  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.99, University of Georgia Press
  • The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

    Source: www.npr.org
  • People with felony convictions - pending felony convictions should not be able to buy gun, but they should be able to stay in sanctuary cities, if they're illegal, if they cross the border.

    Gun   Cities   People  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • The judge gave me a break. He was like: wow, we've never heard of this. So he gave me time served in the county jail, I didn't even get a felony. I have yet to get a felony, which is so crazy. I think Lindsey Lohan has more felonies than me.

    Crazy   Thinking   Jail  
    Source: bluemesareview.org
  • The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not "I'm having a bad day and feel bitchy" nuts or PMS nuts. "I think I'll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend" nuts.

    MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unreturnable: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.30, Penguin
  • Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

    Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream”, p.291, Pan Macmillan
  • Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.

    Thinking   Smoking   Easy  
  • It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

    Sight   Police   Doubt  
    Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 1985.
  • Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people...

    "Government Filings Dispute Romney's Time At Bain". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. July 12, 2012.
  • It seems proper, at all events, that by an early enactment similar to that of other countries the application of public money by an officer of Government to private uses should be made a felony and visited with severe and ignominious punishment.

    United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.11
  • I suppose I shall have to compound a felony as usual.

    "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes".
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