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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.

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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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Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.
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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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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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