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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Alone
Teamwork
Nothing
Stupidity
Sometimes
Dumb
Real
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Men
Silly
Beats
Stupid
Fide
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.
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When I write paradise I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
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