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" Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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" Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond. "

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

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" I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. "

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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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" I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem. "

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

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" One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time. "

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" February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned. "

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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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" For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. "

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" I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. "

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" Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. "

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" I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents. "

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" Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. "

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" Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces. "

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" Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice is one thing, but smart gambling is quite another. "

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" The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear. "

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" There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart. "

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" Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. "

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" There might be some serious fun in politics. "

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" Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend. "

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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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" The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules. "

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" Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. "

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" Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming. "

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" Buy the ticket, take the ride. "

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" The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. "

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