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Don't judge a man by his opinions, but by what his opinions have made him.
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Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
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Anyone who refuses to make a choice has already made a wrong choice by allowing his life for chance ...
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I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, ...
TUCKER CARLSON
The man who knows his ideas,will have the world pave way for him.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Over the years, we worked on some promising projects that Hunter could do while never leaving the Fa...
JAY COWAN
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OK for now. I enjoyed my quick, high-powered visit over there and look forward to a dead-game replay...
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There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challengin...
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A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.
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A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who ...
SUZY KASSEM
Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
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The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his h...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in orde...
HENRY MILLER
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in orde...
HENRY G. MILLER
Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surrounding...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who...
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who...
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Loneliness and fear ate at him, a loner by choice who had prided himself on his daring and courage. ...
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AMBROSE BIERCE
Pity the man who sees money as the all in all in life,for him & his money will soon become history.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worshi...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, ...
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, ...
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A. W. TOZER
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart ma...
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU
If any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all...
LYSANDER SPOONER
The man who leaves his family will be left by God.
VIKRANT PARSAI
While we all respect Sam Johnson for his military record and have empathy for his past sufferings, t...
BOB JOHNSON
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities...
B. C. FORBES
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities...
BARRY C. FORBES
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STEPHEN KING
Our long wanderings have made a man out of him, too. They have not only strengthened his frame and h...
G.A. HENTY
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Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
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When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
PROVERB
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor fr...
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A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though ...
JURGEN MOLTMANN
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.
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Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
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COREY TAYLOR
A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
JIM ELLIOT
God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him
JIM ELLIOT
Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is t...
J. MARTIN KOHE
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is t...
J. MARTIN KOHE
Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and...
CONFUCIUS
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others tha...
LEO TOLSTOY
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DALE CARNEGIE
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JEFFERY WICKS
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n...
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPER
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OSCAR WILDE
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
OSCAR WILDE
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies
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Many a man spanks his children for the things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards -- When I find hi...
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A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait t...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Tightened his bootlace
Sharpened his blade
The Hunter walked along and prayed
For ton...
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
VOLTAIRE
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader...
THOMAS SOWELL
I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intell...
ALDOUS HUXLEY
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to...
DAVID HUME
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE
I will not call that person happy who knows no rest because of his enemies, who is the butt of fun b...
MUNSHI PREMCHAND
While I am sorry to see Mitch leave and we will certainly miss him, he has made a difficult but wise...
BOBBY LUTZ
Wealthy is the man who gazes upon the shine his mountain of gold Brave is the man who saw his last s...
DEVLIN PAJARON
You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
CASSANDRA CLARE
A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.
CHRISTINA STEAD
God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguis...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet whe...
CHANAKYA
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his ha...
DEANNA RAYBOURN
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If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously ove...
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Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
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February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the ...
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...
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I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
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We can't stop here, this is bat country!
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A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing...
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In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
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Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!"
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Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i...
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History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i...
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Buy the ticket take the Ride
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If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ...
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
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We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
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Good people drink good beer.
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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
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Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
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I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
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Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
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Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
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It never got weird enough for me.
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Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
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was doldrums time.
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Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
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Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
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So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
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So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
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I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
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On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
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At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
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No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
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Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
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A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
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1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
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All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
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The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
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It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
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and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
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I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
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No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
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Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
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We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
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Fear is just another word for ignorance
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I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die
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We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
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This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
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Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
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Still humping the American Dream
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The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
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Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
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Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
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My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
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What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
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