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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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Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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