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Once in the racket you're always in it.

Al Capone

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Al Capone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 17
Died: 1947
Died: January 25
Brooklyn
New York
Sunday Albert
Scarface
Alphonse Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone
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Public service is my motto.
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You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
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I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
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I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
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My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
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I have built my organization upon fear.
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