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The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.
Mario Cuomo
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Mario Cuomo
Age: 82 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 15
Died: 2015
Died: January 1
Baseball Player
Former Governor Of New York
Lawyer
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Jamaica
Queens
Mario Matthew Cuomo
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Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
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The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.
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