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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Edward Abbey

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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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Novelist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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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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Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.
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No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.
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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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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.
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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 death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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