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Assassination is the targeted murder of a high-profile person. An added distinction between assassination and other forms of killing is that the assassin (one who performs an assassination) usually has an ideological or political motivation, though many assassins (especially those not part of an organization) also demonstrate insanity. Other motivations may be money (contract killing), revenge, or a military operation. The assassination euphemism targeted killing (or extrajudicial punishment /... full article at wikipedia

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Honey, I forgot to duck.	Ronald Reagan
A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.	Tacitus
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.	John F. Kennedy
The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.	Don DeLillo
I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead -- the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!	J. G. Ballard
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.	Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.	Alexander Smith
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.	George Bernard Shaw
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.	Elizabeth Gaskell
Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.	Andy Warhol
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