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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

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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
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Nation
Nations
Suffering
Hope
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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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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