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Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
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Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
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Screenwriter
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Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
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