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

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" A word to the wise is infuriating. "

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

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" By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died. "

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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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" As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day. "

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" The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner. "

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

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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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" I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect. "

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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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" The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. "

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" The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it. "

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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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" Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

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" I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in fact, because I was born in Kentucky and I learned, early on, that Habitual Domination was a natural way of life. "

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