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Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Edward Abbey

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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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War
Antiwar
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Ideas
Atheism
Men
Kill
Love
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Preposterous

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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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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Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent.
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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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