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The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents.

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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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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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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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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks to (a). Both of these attractions are being rapidly diminished, however, by (c) the Law of Growth and Space-Age Sleaze.
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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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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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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
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