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I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

— Al Capone How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)

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I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

This is virgin territory out here for whorehouses.

Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada (2009)

Don't get the idea that I'm one of these goddamn radicals. Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system.

In Time of Trouble (1956)

This American system of ours ... call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

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It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

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