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We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Hunter S. Thompson

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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
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
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
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Story Writing Yourself
It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
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Love Night Sleep Smile Story Yourself
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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Day Need Yourself
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
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Existence Happiness Man Question Reading Security Stay
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
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God Mercy Yourself
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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Distance Feeling Myself Reality
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
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
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Better Imagination Learning Myself Reality Time
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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Believe Democracy Myself Thinking
I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.
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Fight Myself Right Weird Yourself
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Art Beautiful Face
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
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Death Freedom Philosophy
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
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Comparison Music Myself Word Work
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.
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Fact Heaven Hell Version
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I’ll drink instead!
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Comfortable Death Drink Live Man Myself Soul
I knew a Buddhist once, and I’ve hated myself ever since.
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Hate Myself Religion
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
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Goodness Sex Writing
A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Measurement Sanity
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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Character Crazy Pay Yourself
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 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 never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late.
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Journey Myself Time 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
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning

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