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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

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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
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Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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An empty man is full of himself.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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Concrete is heavy iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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