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Power wears out those who do not have it.

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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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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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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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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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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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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
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Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
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He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful. ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important.
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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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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ِAn offer you can't refuse.
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I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
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