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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. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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

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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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" No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. "

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" There might be some serious fun in politics. "

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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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" It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. "

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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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" 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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" I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here. "

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" That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. "

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" The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. "

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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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" By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream. "

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" Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. "

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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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" Some may never live, but the crazy never die. "

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" Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency. "

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" Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. "

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

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

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