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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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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
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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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One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.
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Whatever he might have denied me was unimportant it was the fact that he could deny me anything at all, even what I didn't want
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'Crazy' is a term of art 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
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Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.
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I may sound a little black, but I'm really pretty well adjusted.
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Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
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Hit him again, Jack! He's crazy!
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The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
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