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There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
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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Hunter Stockton Thompson
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