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Grown men do not need leaders.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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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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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
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