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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
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I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
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A man has to BE something he has to matter.
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
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Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.
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Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
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I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.
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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.
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
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Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
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Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?
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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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If you work in either journalism or politics... you will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways-but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.
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A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.
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