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" Paranoia is just another word for ignorance. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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" Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen. "

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

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" You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands. "

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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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" 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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" Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. "

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" If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. "

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

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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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" Buy the ticket, take the ride. "

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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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" 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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" I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "

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" Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired geek in some traveling backwoods carnival - the freaks who bite the heads off chickens - but Limbaugh is a modernized geek who thinks he can bite the heads off of people. "

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

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

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