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I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Hunter S. Thompson

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
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
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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Control Fatal Fear Mindset Question Stupidity Time
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
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
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Feeling Medium Word Yourself
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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Cherish Goodness Price Worship
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World
All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
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Blood Death Democracy Population Vote
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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Avoid Friendship Police Yourself
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one.
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Animal Behavior Creature Earth Human
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
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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Love Ridiculous Sex
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
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Country Down Hit Low New
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
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Fear Kill Yourself
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach

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