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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

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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Decision Goal Live Way Yourself
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Law Myself Problem Taste
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
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Lonely Love Past Planning
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Difference Power Sanity
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Goodness Liberty People Promise Reason Represent
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Important Information Understand Yourself
There is no story unless you’ve written it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Story Writing Yourself
On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Day Need Yourself
My greatest talent is in my ability to choose good friends. It’s about as important as things get.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Ability Choice Friendship Greatness Myself Talent
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Goodness Sex Writing
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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Control Fatal Fear Mindset Question Stupidity Time
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Failure Future Learning Past Visit
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Oneself Ride Ticket
God’s mercy on you degenerate swine.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

God Mercy 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.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Crime Final Guilty Sin Society Stupidity Thief
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Beautiful Moments Soul Success Victory

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