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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.
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Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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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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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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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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A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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