Frank James Burke
Frank James Burke-Conway (c. 1960/61 in Rockaway, Queens c. 1960/61 – May 18, 1987 in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, United States) was a Gambino crime family mob associate and the son of mobster Jimmy Burke.
Read more about Frank James Burke: Mob Relations, Biography, Entry Into Organized Crime, Death, Exclusion From Goodfellas
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“Calling it your job don’t make it right, boss.”
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“That reality is ‘independent’ means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.”
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