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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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Sympathy
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Knowledge
Reason
Love

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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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Music is a savage art, a measured madness.
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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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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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
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