Assassination Quote by Eric Ambler

“The important thing to know about an assassination or an attempted assassination is not who fired the shot, but who paid for the bullet.”

Eric Ambler

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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it

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International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.

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