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• I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

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• Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

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• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

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• Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

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• Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.

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• Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can’t help feeling the guy’s a good man.

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• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

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• The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.

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• We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

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• I’ve done the Rolling Stones eating each other.

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• You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

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• I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it’ll happen more and more.

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• You see that’s what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

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• You know, we’re really destroying ourselves because we’re really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

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• Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

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• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

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• There is no truly global justice.

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• Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.

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• It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

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• Isolationism is over.

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Ralph Steadman (24)

Birth:	15th May, 1936
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Cartoonist, Painter

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Ralph Steadman is a British cartoonist best known for his work with American author Hunter S. Thompson

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