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" I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older. "

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" Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. "

" Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. "

" Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it. "

" When you pay a hospital bill, you're really paying two hospital bills - one bill for you because you have a job and/or insurance and can pay the hospital. and another bill, which is tacked onto your bill, to cover the medical expenses of someone who doesn't have a job and/or insurance and can't pay the hospital. "

" Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices. "

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" I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm. "

" Never fight an inanimate object. "

" I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. "

" Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good. "

" The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids. "

" On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all. "

" More modern poetry is written than read. "

" Writing is agony. I hate it. "

" If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. "

" What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt. "

" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" I'm a rather decisive type. "

" Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else. "

" Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out. "

" Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. "

" When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. "

" Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.' "

" The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen. "

" Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. "

" In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character. "

" Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly. "

" The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. "

" The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus. "