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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Bulldozers
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Chains
Terrorism
Saws
Common

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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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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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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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