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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

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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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Edward Paul Abbey
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My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Life: another day, another dolor.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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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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Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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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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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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