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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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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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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.
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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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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
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For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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