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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

Hunter S. Thompson

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’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
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
As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
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Day Decent Learning Myself
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
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
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
I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.
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Live Myself Thinking Way
It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
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Goodness Greatness Interest Myself
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
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Final Stupidity Thief World
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Compare Flame Myself
Fiction is a bridge to the truth that journalism can’t reach.
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Bridge Fiction Journalism Reach
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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Difference Power Sanity
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
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Failure Future Learning Past Visit
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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Black Light Moon Naked Need
Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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Fire Warning Wasted Time

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