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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
Edward Abbey
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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal process. Nevertheless, I find that it continues to support my feet, my revolver, and my cigars all day long. What happens when my back is turned I don't know. Or much care. That's no concern of mine.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Don't talk to me about other worlds, separate realities, lost continents or invisible realms -- I know where I belong. Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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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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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.
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The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.
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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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