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Daily Dialogue — June 2, 2008

“I never wanted this for you. I work my whole life – I don’t apologize – to take care of my family, and I refused to be a fool, dancing on the string held by all those bigshots. I don’t apologize – that’s my life – but I thought that, that when it was your time, that you would be the one to hold the string. Senator Corleone; Governor Corleone. Well, it wasn’t enough time, Michael. It wasn’t enough time.”

– Don Corleone (Marlin Brando), The Godfather (1972), screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel “The Godfather” by Mario Puzo

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