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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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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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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law.
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A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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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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