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Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life.
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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I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.
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