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

Hunter S. Thompson

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" There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. "

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" 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble. "

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

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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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" I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem. "

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" There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted. "

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" With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms. "

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" I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. "

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

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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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" I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side. "

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

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" Without gambling, I would not exist. "

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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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" Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it. "

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" The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to cause trouble, whether he means to or not. This, along with a belief in total retaliation for any offense or insult, is what makes the Hell's Angels unmanageable for the police and morbidly fascinating to the general public. "

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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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" 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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" The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs. "

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

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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 wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people. "

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" All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude. Nobody buys Hot Tips from Losers. Remember that. "

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" A word to the wise is infuriating. "

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" Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope. "

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

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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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" I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. "

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