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" All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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" Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. "

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" March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters. "

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" One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it. "

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" Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. "

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" Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. "

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" There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. "

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" I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never. "

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" Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. "

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" The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane. "

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" There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners. "

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" There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. "

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" I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. "

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" I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride. "

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" Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. "

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" Buy the ticket, take the ride. "

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" The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs. "

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" Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. "

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" The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. "

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" The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. "

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" America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. "

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" Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race. "

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" The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character. "

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" I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people. "

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" Without gambling, I would not exist. "

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" Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. "

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" I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. "

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" I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient. "

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" There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. "

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" I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it. "

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" Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common. "

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