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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

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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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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
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Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?
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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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If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves. E.Abbey
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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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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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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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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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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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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
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