In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt 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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I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
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On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
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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.
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I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
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I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
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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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There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
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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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A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.
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Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
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A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.
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Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.
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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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