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

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it. "

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

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" Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president. "

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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 am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them. "

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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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" Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke. "

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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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