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

Hunter S. Thompson

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Art Beautiful Face
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Action One Liner Worth
In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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Alone Cruelty Deserve Happiness Oneself Peace Personal Weird World
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
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Life Man Myself Rhythm
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
Freedom, Truth, Honour, you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
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Freedom Hands Honor Oneself Truth Word
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
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Feeling Hate Myself Old Strange Wisdom
Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.
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Decision Goal Live Way Yourself
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Black Light Moon Naked Need
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Love Ridiculous Sex
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Live Myself Thinking Way
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
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Acceptance Choice Hands Life Necessary Yourself
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
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Challenge Dangerous Death Power Risk
I was never trying, necessarily, to be an outlaw. It was just the place in which I found myself.
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Law Myself Necessary Place Try
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.
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People Politics Power Way
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
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Beautiful Death Dreams Live Love Pain Planning Rise Thinking
Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
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Future Reason Weird
The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
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Goodness Happiness Path Search
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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Compare Flame Myself
An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
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Definition Law Live Necessary
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
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Day Dog Rich Run Yourself
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
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Expectation Law Order People
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Distance Feeling Myself Reality
He had that rare weird electricity about him – that extremely wild and heavy presence that you only see in a person who has abandoned all hope of ever behaving normally.
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heavy Himself Hope Normal Rare Weird Wild
There’s a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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Dangerous Evil Vote Way
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity

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