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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
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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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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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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I would prefer to write about everything what else is there? But one must be selective.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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