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• What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Compassion, Color

  Speech the day after the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, April 5, 1968.

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• He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Angel, Land, Cities

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• This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.

  Jennifer Estep

  Food, Thinking, Knives

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?.

  Cyril Wecht

  Cases, Lone

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• Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have been either a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Hero, Men, Fire

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.494, Hachette UK

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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

  Mother, Uncles, Pay

  Raymond E. Feist (1990). “Prince of the Blood”, Spectra

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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

  Death, Dying, Body

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• Hope. An emotion that always kept suckering me in, time after time, despite my supposed retirement from the assassin business. Hope. The one thing that always seemed to get me into more trouble than just killing people for money ever had. Ah, hope. Sometimes, I really hated it.

  Jennifer Estep

  Retirement, People, Emotion

  Jennifer Estep (2011). “Tangled Threads”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Girl, Kings, Writing

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• Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Forever, Enemy, Religion

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1083, Library of Alexandria

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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

  God, Men, Rant

  Pensees d'un Biologiste ch. 5 (1939) See Porteus 1; Edward Young 3

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• Let's cool it brothers . . . Spoken to his assassins, three men who stabbed him 16 times.

  Malcolm X

  Brother, Men, Three

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• I do not exchange my shirt with ASSASSINS

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Shirts

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• An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Drinking, Book, Philosophical

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax

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• The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.

  W. H. Auden

  Car, Salad, Milk

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• ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Long, Rope

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2504, Delphi Classics

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• When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Moving, Empowering, Police

  "The Church of Scientology Wanted a Balkan Holy Land" by Lily Lynch, balkanist.net. August 27, 2013.

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• The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, House, Watches

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• You do realize that the cost of that bracelet is within spitting distance of my going rate as an assassin, right?” “You mean your going rate back when you were actually killing people for money,” Finn said. “Or as I like to call them— the good ole days.

  Jennifer Estep

  Distance, Mean, People

  Jennifer Estep (2013). “Deadly Sting”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, Finn isn’t an assassin,” I cut in. “He’s much, much worse. He’s a banker.

  Jennifer Estep

  Cutting, Bankers

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Spider's Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

  Steven Morrissey

  Music, Would Be, British Politics

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• Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

  Jose Marti

  Sweet, Hate, People

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• Each situation is different... Each situation, I'm a different person I guess. He's present; the actors are present; and you just work in that moment, trying to flush it out. We have history from Assassins and Wicked, but it's always new beginnings between us. You start off fresh and that's what I like and respect about him.

  Kendra Kassebaum

  New Beginnings, Wicked, Trying

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think I'm probably an assassin and not a Templar, but no doubt we're probably run by people with Templar mentalities.

  Jeremy Irons

  Running, Thinking, People

  Source: in.ign.com

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• The camera's perspective exactly matches that of the assassin: it now shoots the tourists shooting their own memorial photos, and we can watch this in real time.

  Joachim Schmid

  Real, Perspective, Memorial

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