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It is not possible to remake the world. You can fix parts, but you can't remake the world.

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Ed Koch
Age: 88 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 12
Died: 2013
Died: February 1
Film Critic
Former United States Representative
Judge
Lawyer
Politician
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Edward Irving Ed Koch
Edward I. Koch
Edward Irving Koch
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd.
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Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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Be different-if you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen. When word gets around that you can listen when others tend to talk, you will be treated as a sage.
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In a neighborhood, as in life, a clean bandage is much, much better than a raw or festering wound.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.
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I want to come back as me.
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I don't believe that in our society that we should have guns.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.
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