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" There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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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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" I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never. "

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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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" 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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" If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club. "

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

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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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" Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. "

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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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" 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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" Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. "

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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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" 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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" Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL. "

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

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" Politics is the art of controlling your environment. "

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

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" Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered. "

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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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" 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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" Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. "

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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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" 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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" 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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