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An absolute monarchy is one in which the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins.
Ambrose Bierce
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And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly.
Marco Polo
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If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.
Shaquille O'Neal
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I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin.
Stephen Colbert
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi
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When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.
R.L. LaFevers
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I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.
Norman Parkinson
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It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.
Mohsin Hamid
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Take away the Holocaust and what do you have left? Without their precious Holocaust, what are the Jews? Just a grubby little bunch of international bandits and assassins and squatters who have perpetrated the most massive, cynical fraud in human history.
Harold Covington
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Ambrose Bierce
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Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet... nattering nabobs of negativism.
Spiro T. Agnew
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
Jean Rostand
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
W. H. Auden
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I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
Jim Morrison
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To murder character is as truly a crime as to murder the body: the tongue of the slanderer is brother to the dagger of the assassin
Tryon Edwards
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Idea-assassins rush forward to kill any new suggestion on the grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, no matter how absurd.
Alvin Toffler
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I do not like assassins, or men of low character.
Gene Hackman
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Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
Sarah Vowell
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.
Tryon Edwards
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
Neil Patrick Harris
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Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.
Terry Pratchett
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If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But the full aptness of such an attempt is entirely compatible with its being a horrible murder, if the "hunter" is an assassin and the prey his victim. That hunter's shot may still be outstandingly, fully apt, if it manifests the agent's competence in both archery dexterity and shot selection.
Ernest Sosa
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I've met serial killers and professional assassins and nobody scared me as much as MrsT.
Ken Livingstone
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Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.
Grenville Kleiser
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To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.
John Philpot Curran
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A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.
Stephen Crane
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Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?.
Cyril Wecht
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Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
John le Carre
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Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin
Robin Hobb
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A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
William Soutar
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I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.
Jose Mujica
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We're Vatican assassins. How complicated can it be?
Charlie Sheen
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On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu.
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand
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I might be an assassin, but never let it be said I wasn't as gracious a hostess as the next gal.
Jennifer Estep
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My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―
Raymond E. Feist
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Oh, Finn isn’t an assassin,” I cut in. “He’s much, much worse. He’s a banker.
Jennifer Estep
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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.
Ambrose Bierce
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Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend." Mara: "She's an insect, Ben." Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard." Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt Leia is my best friend." Ben: "Doesn't count. She's family. Saba is a lizard." Mara: "Okay, maybe my best friend's a lizard.
Troy Denning
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Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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I didn’t know they’d do this to you. (Syd) It’s okay, Syd. Who could have imagined that a man who heads up a company of paid assassins and mercenaries would be psychotic? (Steele)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.
Jennifer Estep
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RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.
Ambrose Bierce
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
Malcolm Lowry
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Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.
Stephenie Meyer