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You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

— Al Capone Disputed

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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)

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.

How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)

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)

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