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

Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

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" There might be some serious fun in politics. "

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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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" 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 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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" 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 had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth. "

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" I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds. "

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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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