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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

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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
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Edward Paul Abbey
Peace
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Babylon
Conservative
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Hell

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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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