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The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last year as a Heisman Trophy winner.
Hunter S. Thompson
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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
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I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes.
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As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.
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Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.
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At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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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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In four short years he has turned our country from a prosperous nation at peace into a desperately indebted nation at war. But so what? He is the President of the United States, and you're not. Love it or leave it.
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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
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Still humping the American Dream
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