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Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

~Eliot Ness

Topics: Action After Dangerous Excitement Felt Figured Forever Go Going Hell Highly Jump Like Lives Natural Nobody Police Quite Task Unquestionably Work You

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You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

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Topics: Become Death Disturb Down Eventually Face Familiar Looking Nerves Never Nothing Realized Something Think Which You Your

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Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

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Topics: Citizens Considered Doubts Enforcing Honest Law Majority Mind Seem Through Want Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: April 19th, 1903

Died: May 16th, 1957

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