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“In July 1958, Cristoforo Rubino became another informer to fall before testifying against Mafia drug traffickers. A week before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating Vito Genovese and other traffickers, Rubino was shot dead on a Brooklyn sidewalk.98”
― C. Alexander Hortis, Mob and the City: The Hidden History of How the Mafia Captured New York

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at. —Jesse Owens”
― Adam Goucher, Running the Edge: Discover the secrets to better running and a better life

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“the strongest tendency of human nature was “the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.”
― Deirdre Bair, Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend