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

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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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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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The knowledge that refuge is available, when and if needed, makes the silent inferno of the desert more easily bearable. Mountains complement desert as desert complements city, as wilderness complements and completes civilization.
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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
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Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy of a modern Melville or Tolstoy. But our best fictioneers confine themselves to domestic drama -- soap opera with literary trimmings.
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The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink.
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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