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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

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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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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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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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Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
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The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for -- for what? Someday we'll know.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
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Little boys love machines girls adore horses grown-up men and women like to walk.
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