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Power wears out those who do not have it.

Mario Puzo

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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
Author
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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Power

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It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
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I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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Any man can turn traitor.
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I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
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We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
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Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
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It's just business nothing personal.
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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
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Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.
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It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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