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In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
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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Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
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Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.
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Familiarity seems to breed contempt
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But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.
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Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
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