“If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.”

—  Hunter S. Thompson

BankRate.com Interview (1 November 2004) http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/investing/20041101a1.asp <br class="br">2000s

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American journalist and author 1937–2005

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