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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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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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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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I intend to be good for the rest of my natural life -- if I live that long.
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Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.
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A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological imperative, strive harder to preserve a youthful appearance (the reproductive look) and lose it sooner.
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
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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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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.
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