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" Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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" You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. "

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

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

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" In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. "

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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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" I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism. "

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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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" I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. "

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" I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them. "

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

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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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" When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. "

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" The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison. "

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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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" Buy the ticket, take the ride. "

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" As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. "

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" I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an acquired taste. "

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" I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. "

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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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" I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it. "

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" I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination. "

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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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" 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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" Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. "

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" Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. "

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